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Patrick Kambach
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Fri Jun 19 08:46:02 CEST 2009
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi! Stupid question: 50 EUR / year / allocation -> ok But in addition the billing score will grow as the PI / ASN assignments in the past years only came into scoring once. Now they will be a permanent scoring point, right? Cheers, Patrick Am 19.06.2009 08:40, schrieb Hank Nussbacher: > On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Martin List-Petersen wrote: > >> 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. > > From today onward it makes total sense to charge 50 or even 200 Euro per > allocation - at least then the LIR knows the cost, the end user knows > the cost. > >> >> 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. > > Here you hit the nail on the head. Most ISPs will just pass the cost > onward to the end user. As you said - it is chump change. And most of > the 5000 LIR members don't even waste their manpower discussing this > since the time spent is not worth the cost savings. > > But not all LIRs are commercial ISPs - some are non-profits. Back in > the dark ages, before ISPs knew about multi-homing and BGP, ISOC-IL > acted as a LIR and assigned ASNs to organizations needing multihoming in > Israel. Dozens pre-1999. ISOC-IL knew its RIPE membership fees and > charged end users a one time fee for the allocations. Only recently has > the charging algorithm changed to include allocations dating back to 1992. > > -Hank > - -- ConnectingBytes GmbH - "www.kambach.net" | In der Steele 35, 40599 Düsseldorf, Germany | Telefon: 0800 / 900 2580 - 1, Fax: 0800 / 900 2580 - 2 | Email: pkambach at kambach.net | Web: http://www.kambach.net | | Geschäftsführer: Patrick Kambach | Amtsgericht Düsseldorf, HRB 60009 | Ust-IdNr.: DE815028832, Steuernummer: 106/5736/0037 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFKOzQqCIR+kawbQF0RAiIzAJ4q1vF/wIrS1JvQuyOpVtN/5N07hQCg8/V5 2CfBvcl2f1qxzp6+GOVmAbg= =Yyg0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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