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

Liman,

There is no cost for IP. IP is allocated on a need basis. The cost is for the membership. This is an important distinction to observe :) 

Fahad.

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  Original Message  
From: Lars-Johan Liman
Sent: Wednesday, 25 March 2015 00:34
To: members-discuss at ripe.net
Subject: Re: [members-discuss] [GM] Draft RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2016

Hi!

sander at steffann.nl:
> Yes, the idea was that we couldn't set any specific fee. But the
> intention was that there would be *some* fee...

Well ... My SEK 0,02.

The NCC budget has to be fed money, and the membership has the task of
finding that balance of income for various services and express it at
the GM. It actually does precisely that. It has decided that the prices
for ASNs should be zero, which pushes the cost for IP# instead. Zero is
not a special case, it's just the end of the scale and the GM knows how
to move the marker. *IF* one moves it, the cost for IP# will be
adjusted accordingly*. And moving the marker to or from the end of the
scale is not a policy decision.

Cheers,
/Liman

* I leave it as an exercise to the reader to find the mathematical
function that describes the multi-dimensional curve that describes the
relationship between the variables. :-)
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