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

This proposal is quite simple and fair.

Kind Regards,
Timo Hopponen
FNE-Finland Ltd

Floris Bos <bos at je-eigen-domein.nl> kirjoitti 27.9.2016 kello 19.02:

> 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
> 
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