[members-discuss] [ncc-announce] [GM] Publication of Draft Charging Scheme Models 2024

Hi Gert,

> So option 1, the NCC regularily comes asking ("does anyone in your company
> know if AS196631 is still in use?").  Option 2, you find a financial 
> incentive to make people return ASNs that are no longer needed, because
> they find the yearly monetary transfer annoying.
> 
> I am convinced that a charge around 50 EUR is a reasonable thing to add -
> it's low enough that it is not really noticeable for someone who really
> need a public ASN, as in "takes part of global BGP, has infrastructure, etc",
> while at the same time annoying enough so you want to get rid of it if
> you do no longer need the ASN.

Seriously, you're again in discussion similar to 2007-01. How to introduce the fee for numbers? Explain that maintaining a registry of numbers couldn't be for free. Every SS7 code, every license plate, every airport code have a cost. But RIPE NCC already have the registry and RIPE Database is mostly about IP addresses as the most valuable resource.
Otherwise we could come to a conclusion that every DB object should cause a fee.

At the moment the most fair solution as for me is: charge for the most valuable. Don't charge for person/role/route/aut-num/mntner/poem.

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Kind regards,
Sergey Myasoedov