[members-discuss] Discuss Charging Scheme 2010 (fwd)

Salut,

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 09:50:40PM +0000, Sven Olaf Kamphuis wrote:
> 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)"...
> 
> thats blackmail.

As far as I can see, there are two options for the LIRs, depending on the contract
they signed with the customer.

If the contract permits, it is probably the best for the LIR to return the PI
ressources to RIPE to be converted to a direct assignment. This way, RIPE will
have to bother with the legal implication of suddenly demanding charges for a
contract which only mentioned initial charges.

If that is not the case, the LIR can _kindly_ request the customer to pay a recurring
fee for the IP space, just for charity. If the customer refuses, then the LIR will
have to pay the fee out of their own pockets. I don't see a way the LIR can legally
force their customers to pay this sum.

Kind regards,

				Tonnerre
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