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

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?


Personally, I do believe the membership fee between a small start-up and 
a giant telecom company with millions of IPs and customers can and 
should be significant, and not just a couple hundred.
But yes, I do am realistic enough not to expect the 27 EUR for a /22 
absolute fairness.

Let's see...

- The budget & activity plan expects 21 million membership fee income.
- Can differentiate by price by simply counting the total number of 
IP-addresses that have been allocated to a LIR
- Different pricing per category instead of ultimate fair per individual 
IP pricing as concession to larger LIRs.
- Let's have a lower limit of 500 EUR for /22, similar to the $ 500 
another NCC charges ( 
https://www.arin.net/fees/fee_schedule.html#categories )
- Upper limit of say 8000 EUR for the largest LIRs
- If you where to have 5 categories. You could roughly have something 
like this:

Total IP space   Number of LIRs           Fee        Total fee

<= /24                        1           500              500
<= /23                        4           500             2000
<= /22                     6081           500          3040500

<= /21                     1583          1000          1583000
<= /20                     1638          1000          1638000

<= /19                     1548          2000          3096000
<= /18                     1040          2000          2080000

<= /17                      709          4000          2836000
<= /16                      385          4000          1540000

<= /15                      293          8000          2344000
<= /14                      133          8000          1064000
<= /13                      110          8000           880000
<= /12                       80          8000           640000
<= /11                       64          8000           512000
<= /10                       25          8000           200000
<= /9                        14          8000           112000
<= /8                         6          8000            48000
<= /7                         2          8000            16000

Totals                    13716                       21632000

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



Yours sincerely,

Floris Bos