[members-discuss] "classful" charging scheme that still charges for resources

Hi all,

I think the problem is as always, biggest companies don't want to pay their
bills and they are looking for how to put all cost on smallest ones. :(

I think your idea is good and fair.

Kind regards
Michal

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From: members-discuss-bounces at ripe.net
[mailto:members-discuss-bounces at ripe.net] On Behalf Of Andrea Cocito
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 4:38 PM
To: members-discuss at ripe.net
Subject: [members-discuss] "classful" charging scheme that still charges for
resources

Hello all,

after all the discussions I cannot understand what the problem would be with
a scheme like the following:

a) Member LIRs are divided into 16 categories, named /5, /6, /7, .. / 20,
/21
b) Your category is the smallest route that could contain the total
IPv4 allocated space of your LIR
c) Your fee in euro is T/2^C, where C is your category and T the total
RIPENCC costs.

Seems simple and fair, it is still a category based model and thus it does
not change the tax status of RIPE, and in example:
- Up to 2048 IP addresses you are class /21 and pay about 100 euro
- Up to 4096 IP addresses you are class /20 and pay about 200 euro
- Up to 8192 IP addresses you are class /19 and pay about 400 euro
- Up to 16384 IP addresses you are class /18 and pay about 800 euro
- Up to 32768 IP addresses you are class /17 and pay about 1600 euro
- Up to 65535 IP addresses you are class /16 and pay about 3200 euro ... and
so on.

Some corrections improvements might be considered to take in other
exhaustable resources (IPv6 address space, ASn) and even to some extent
non-exhaustable ones (number of tickets per year, number of records or
operations in the database).

Has a schema like this ever been considered or voted upon ?

Regards,

A.



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