[members-discuss] Sign-up fee for additional LIR account

On Sun Jul 24, 2016 at 09:58:39AM +0000, Stefan van Westering wrote:
> If you give the LIR's with more /24's, or whatever the measure, more votes then
> it will not be a fair community/decision scheme on policies anymore since then all
> the largest LIR's will decide the decisions etc in RIPE and will make everything in favor of only them.

Yes, I didn't say it would be fair nor reasonable/sensible

> The costs for larger LIR's will be higher if you would charge per IPv4, though
> a large LIR that needs them and uses them should not complaint since large LIR's
> assumably have larger incomes and if not then something is in my opinion wrong
> with the financial part or business scheme of that LIR.

These are fees for a service, not a tax on income. If no profit is made should
either large or small LIR pay nothing?

> On the other hand large LIR's that don't use them will get an extra reason to
> get rid of the extra IPv4 adresses which he does not use since it will cost extra money.

What proportion of those are actually just hoarding space? Is it enough to
make a difference (figures mentioned before suggest it's small and will
be rapidly used up)

> Aswell i would vote in favor for a solution to charge for IPv4 adresses of a LIR.

I vote for just getting on with IPv6 and stop fiddling with this legacy junk

When everything is IPv6 and everyone has a /32 we'll be back to equal fees
per member so the small LIR will end up paying what they pay today.

brandon