[members-discuss] Re: [ncc-announce] Draft RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2010

Dear Jochem,

Jochem de Ruig wrote:
>>Sorry, i may be unclear, i look for a table like this :
>>
>>Category    ExtraSmall Small Medium Large eXtraLarge
>>N° of AS                             
>>N° of /19V4                             
>>N° of /20V4                             
>>N° of /21V4                             
>>N° of /22V4                             
>>N° of /30V6                             
>>N° of /31V6                             
>>N° of /32V6                             
>>N° of /33V6                             
> 
> I do not have a table like this available. The Charging Scheme is an
> automated process and has as output mainly a score per registry. This
> will require quite some manual work from our side. When this is very
> relevant to discuss the Charging Scheme then this will be possible in
> due time.

I think this is very relevant to understand the current billing scheme 
that is quite complicated from my beginner point of view :

What i understand is that there is a RessourceScore and a TimedScore :
- RessourceScore is based on an arbitrary value corresponding to each 
ressource allocated or assigned to a member ;
- TimedScore is a value computed from each RessourceScore by taking into 
account the age of the ressource allocation or assignation.

Then, there is another function that make a classification of the 
members in 5 classes, that i imagine are carefully chosen by factors i 
don't know currently.

But i don't forget that the basic goal of RIPE is to manage some scarce 
resources that are IP adresses and ASNumbers.

So as i am told that this classification of members in 5 categories is 
important, i would like to know how the ressources are used by these 5 
categories.

I can also understand that categories are an artificial concept that is 
not important at all, and that would be a good explanation why there is 
currently no table showing use of ressources by categories.

But then i would ask myself why using categories in billing scheme if 
they are not useful anywhere else ?

> May be you can find the answer to your question from the readily
> information at:
> ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc/delegated-ripencc-latest
> This shows all the delegated resources from the RIPE NCC to its members.

Thanks a lot for this link.

This is interesting but miss the relationship side from each ressource 
to the category.

Best regards,
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