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

Hi

I think the current fee are really low enough to a point even intensive
some abuse of the policy in which was heavily debated both in policy
discussion and member discussion for past years.

If we start asking big one paying 5000 euro a year(in which I don't think
they would care), then unless RIPE tomorrow start spending 100 million a
year, we will have to charge small one with 1000 IP around 200 Euro or 500
Euro a year...image the situation then.

We will effectively finish the last /8 in a second.

We have to asks for the great management of RIPE NCC, for the amount of
work they have done for the amount of member, they are very good value for
the money:)

In a large picture, the cost to run RIPE NCC are really fiction of what's
the total value of the IP address, so there is no way financial incentive
in fees would change anything.

My 2 cent.

With regards.

Lu

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Paul Webb <
Paul.Webb at clearstreamgroup.co.uk> wrote:

> Good points Chris and I'd have to agree. The large LIR's (who gained their
> large and largely unused IPv4 resources many years ago at no cost) have
> many reasons not to prioritise IPv6, so they aren't doing so.
>
> Certainly RIPE, but organisations such as the IX's, could also start
> making IPv4 more expensive and help the migration and I'd argue they should
> be. Sadly the larger LIR's have a disproportionate influence in all the
> important places, which doesn't help.
>
> I'd agree there are may be pinch points in many networks where, for
> example, even *slightly* older routers have lower throughput with IPv6
> (we've CISCO's that route IPv4 in hardware and IPv6 in software for
> example) and I guess that stuff has to be assessed and worked though still
> in many networks.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: members-discuss [mailto:members-discuss-bounces at ripe.net] On Behalf
> Of Chris Smith
> Sent: 13 September 2016 20:57
> To: members-discuss at ripe.net
> Subject: Re: [members-discuss] Input from Membership on RIPE NCC Charging
> Scheme Model
>
> Hi,
>
> "How you calculate these costs would of course depend on a number of
> different factors and I can see different members proposing things to their
> own benefit (and therefore the detriment of others) without reference to a
> single “goal”."
>
> It seems clear to me that LIR's that have large IPv4 resources are at an
> economic advantage against LIR's with small IPv4 resources.
> The current Small, Medium, Large model seems to be setup with this in mind.
> When it comes to IPv6 it's irrelevant, and perhaps a single pricing model
> would be more appropriate in this case.
>
> Trying to stay impartial (impossible but...), how about:
>
> Goal: Kill off IPv4 by 2025?
>
> I believe a full switch to IPv6 is everyone's long term interest.
> I'd like to see some form of IPv4 switch off target date set and a
> financial incentive model to encourage full deployment.
> Increasing costs for IPv4's in a disproportionate way, and artificially
> making IPv6 ready networks lower cost should do it?
>
> My take on this would therefore be to have a notional membership cost say
> 1 euro, and for the time being move to charging primarily based upon IPv4
> resources and give discounts to each LIR that declares they're ready for an
> IPv4 switch off.
> To compensate for the economic advantage LIR's with large amounts of
> IPv4's have, a weighting could be applied to make each IPv4 address
> proportionally more expensive as well.
>
> If you think about it I don't think it's that far off from the thinking
> behind the current charging model.
>
> Speaking as a small LIR/ISP the current charging model appears to favour
> uptake of IPv6 by smaller LIR/ISP's, not the larger ones, where in my
> opinion it really matters.
> If you look at the UK for example, I can't think of any large LIR/ISP that
> is fully IPv6 ready (there's only one I can think of that isn't too far
> off), yet I can think of many smaller ones that are 100% good to go and
> have been for some time.
> I think once all the large networks are IPv6 ready, everyone else will
> follow suit very quickly, and all LIR's should be much happier once "IPv4
> scarce resources" are no longer required.
> I understand that large networks are inherently more complex, however,
> they are usually much better funded as well, and imho should contribute
> proportionally more to the RIPE coffers.
>
> If another LIR has a hundred times more IPv4 addresses than we do, then
> I'd expect them to pay 100 times (or more) than we do.
>
> Regards
>
> Chris Smith
> Subtopia Ltd
> t.+44 (0)121 638 0888
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: members-discuss [mailto:members-discuss-bounces at ripe.net] On Behalf
> Of James Blessing
> Sent: 13 September 2016 12:59 PM
> To: Nigel Titley; members-discuss at ripe.net
> Subject: Re: [members-discuss] Input from Membership on RIPE NCC Charging
> Scheme Model
>
>
>
>
>
> On 13/09/2016, 12:15, "members-discuss on behalf of Nigel Titley" <
> members-discuss-bounces at ripe.net on behalf of nigel at titley.com> wrote:
>
> >    The Executive Board therefore proposes to discuss this issue at the
> >    upcoming GM. We ask that prior to the GM the membership discusses this
> >    issue on <members-discuss at ripe.net>, keeping the discussion focused
> on
> >    whether or not the "one LIR-one fee" model is the best model for RIPE
> >    NCC charging schemes and, if not, what the alternative should be.
>
> Hi,
>
> The idea of a per LIR fee only seems to be (in principle) a good idea and
> one that I believe that should be retained by RIPE.
>
> However, there are a number of reasons to move to move to a system where
> 80% (a number plucked from the air) of the costs are made up from *all*
> members and the remainder made up based on the impact of individual members
> on the operational costs maintaining RIPE.
>
> How you calculate these costs would of course depend on a number of
> different factors and I can see different members proposing things to their
> own benefit (and therefore the detriment of others) without reference to a
> single “goal”.
>
> I therefore propose that the remaining costs apportions are focused on two
> separate goals “accuracy of the database” and “conservation of scarce
> resource” if a proposal does not fit within *both* of these goals then it
> should be rejected as being not in the interest of the wider community.
>
> If we, as a community, cannot achieve changes that meet both these goals
> then I suggest we stay with the status quo.
>
> Thx
>
> J
> --
>
> James Blessing
> CTO
>
> M: +44(0)7989 039 476
> E:  james.blessing at keycom.co.uk
>
>
>
>
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