[members-discuss] [ncc-announce] [GM] Draft RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2016

Understood ‎but it was also dropped until the NCC came up with a charging scheme and announced it just now. If it was an issue it should have been continued and a formal move to include it for discussion and a vote at the next GM be made by the membership. That hasn't happened. I feel introducing it now is a bit unfair if the expectation is for the board to revise the current proposed charging scheme and present additional options immediately. However, if it IS an issue, I say propose to add it to next GM for the next-next charging scheme if a vote passes. And please accept the proposed next charging scheme as is. Because to be honest, I would like to see the board turn their immediate attention to other issues that are a bit more relevant than extra revenue to the community and the membership. 

Not saying I oppose the ASN charges (not saying I support the charges either to be honest ‎I feel they won't have a significant impact one way or another on the vast majority of members because unlike PI there aren't that many LIRs with a massive number of ASNs each that a charge would significantly impact the operational revenues of the NCC and thus the general LIR fee charged). All am saying is: give the board guidance through formal means and time to implement. A more relevant question to ask would be: WOULD an ASN charge have substantial revenue impact? Say if we charge 50 euros per ASN? Would the membership fee then drop by more than 55 Euros for budget target to be met? 

Fahad. 



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  Original Message  
From: Sander Steffann
Sent: Tuesday, 24 March 2015 23:43
To: Fahad AlShirawi
Cc: Sascha Luck [ml]; members-discuss at ripe.net
Subject: Re: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] [GM] Draft RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2016

Hi Fahad,

> If you would like to see charges for ASNs and others in the community who are also members support this, then a discussion on here is definitely the first step but you will eventually have to add it to the agenda of the GM for discussion and voting. 

The discussion was started at the last SYN by Nick Hilliard. This is just a continuation of that :)

Cheers,
Sander