[members-discuss] Input from Membership on RIPE NCC Charging Scheme Model

On Tue, 2016-09-27 at 18:02 +0200, Floris Bos wrote:
> On 09/27/2016 02:01 PM, Daniel Pearson wrote:
> > I don't think anyone disagrees about coming up with a realistic 
> > pricing discussion.
> 
> Good.
> Then the next question would be, what would you consider to be realistic 
> minimum and maximum fees?

500 EUR minimum and 8000 EUR maximum seems realistic, and would bring
the RIPE NCC closer to what the other RIRs are charging.

I think that 500 EUR should be an absolute minimum: even after rebate,
no one should pay less than that.


> Could also have more categories, or have per IP pricing within a 
> category to smooth things out further.

I've done a simulation with a base fee + per IP pricing (no categories):

Member fee = min(500.00 + IPv4_count * 0.12, 8000.00)
Total IPv4 ALLOCATED PA: 583973120
LIRs: 14027. Total fees: 21237786.40

Data from alloclist.txt, taking only ALLOCATED PA into account.


Your category-based proposal also looks fine to me.


Regards,
Sebastien Brossier