[members-discuss] [ncc-announce] [GM] RIPE NCC Annual Report 2017 and Proposed RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2019

Hi, 

Rmiqiusz Marcinkiewicz wrote:
> On one hand, I would still be inclined to say that if 1400 EUR per year is
a matter of life and death for one's business, they're probably doing
something wrong; on the other, I can't help but agree that this *can* be a
lot of money for someone who just wanted to run an ISP for their small town
and a couple villages around it and remain independent from the bigger fish
like their national ISP, but just happens to live in the middle of nowhere
within a former Soviet republic or something like that.


In fact i am such a small company (only me and myself). The RIPE fee is
already more than 60% of all my years expenses of my business. If there is
any discount that can apply to small companies or a fee based on revenue
would be a much better position for me. Also if my reveived IPv4 net is
already fully used i would never be able to get other IPv4 addresses anymore
as i cannot afford to buy ip addresses on the market neither i am allowed to
officially receive more from RIPE. A real issue that can prevent the
competition against other companies. 

Rgds. 

Michael