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

On 26/09/2016 22:50, Tim Armstrong wrote:
>
> Continuing this conversation beyond the four day mark costs us all
> time, which also costs money, the real question is if you think your
> time spent on this matter is worth more than the ~400 EUR / year you
> stand to save should you win the argument.
>
Simply because not everyone arguing here is in it to save 400 Euro/yr. 
There are those who trade in IP addresses and make far more money than
400 Euro and will invest enormous amounts of time so that their business
model continues to thrive for the next 5 years.

> Because I'm pretty sure winning this argument is worth way more to
> those with large IPv4 blocks that you want too slap a not so
> insignificant additional fee on, and for what, being an older company?
> If you want to free up more IPv4 space for "the greater good" perhaps
> try looking at ways to reclaim space from the real bad guys, people
> who abused the loopholes in the last /8 policy to claim way more than
> a single /22.
> Which frankly should be treated with much more animosity than the
> legacy resource holders who actually brought the internet to the RIPE
> area before ripe even existed.
>
Thanks for the words of support.

Regards,
Hank