[members-discuss] Discuss Charging Scheme 2010

> The product that the customer buys of the LIR should be giving more than
> 50 EUR/year revenue, if not, you might not be in business for long.

LIRS are NOT isps!

the "product" bought from a LIR is the registration of IP space, usually
at at one-time single payment that covered the increase in the billing
score for 2 years if applicable and the administrative work.

there are no "services" or "products" a LIR normally sells.

and there also is no question of "circumventing ripe membership fees"
as those only apply to LIRs (that is, people willing to register IP space
for others).

the fact that -most- LIRs are part of an ISP or even some ASPs that fell
for ripes jedi-mind-trick and became a LIR themselves, doesnt mean they
HAVE to be part of an ISP.

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On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Martin List-Petersen wrote:

> Sven Olaf Kamphuis wrote:
> >> It's not charging retroactively. Retroactively charging for the PI space
> >> would be sending invoices out for every year from '92 to to date, which
> >> is not happening.
> >>
> >> What is happening that the price has changed from 0 to 50 EUR/year
> >> (well, the draft price).
> >
> > mind you that PI registrants never agreed to any contract that allows
> > "price changes" and that "choosing" to have their allocations removeed
> > instead of either paying a LIR, with whom they would usually have an
> > agreement that only covers a one time payment, or several thousand euros
> > to ripe directly, OR GIVE UP THEIR ALLOCATIONS and therefore cause
> > significant damage to their business :P is pure blackmail.
> >
> > you cant first tell someone "sure we will register ip sppace for your
> > company, please pay 2500 euros which covers our work and the first 2 years
> > in which potentially our ripe-score could be affected by this registration
> > (PI and AS numbers only count for 2 years in the score), and then go
> > "oops, now you have to either pay a few 1000 to ripe OR a few hundred to
> > us (most customers have as numberrs AND PI space)"...
> >
>
> Not necessarily. It's a change of the market and certainly not good
> practice. It's like an ISP adjusting the price upwards on a broadband
> package. The problem is, there's no competition to move to or well there
> is .. because it depends what the LIR charges the end-user or if the LIR
> just takes the 50 EUR and basically writes it off.
>
> The product that the customer buys of the LIR should be giving more than
> 50 EUR/year revenue, if not, you might not be in business for long.
>
> Honestly this discussion is pretty much about chump change in the bigger
> scheme.
>
> The ones that get hit are the ones that abused the PI scheme to not pay
> for PA or RIPE membership. For everyone else it's pretty much something
> that falls under the table. It's 4.17EUR/month per allocation. If you
> don't make that kindda money of your PI customers on top of your cost,
> your business isn't viable. And yeah .. you can just charge it on to
> them or eat the cost. Latter wouldn't make a difference to the customer
> as long as they are with you.
>
> And before you ask, We've got a few PI allocations ourselves and I
> couldn't care less about 50 EUR each a year. If that is, what it takes,
> to get people to give ressources back, then that's that.
>
> Kind regards,
> Martin List-Petersen
> --
> Airwire - Ag Nascadh Pobail an Iarthair
> http://www.airwire.ie
> Phone: 091-865 968
>
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