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

Hi all,

Commenting on the size distribution of LIRs and the consequence for the charging model:

> On 13 Apr 2023, at 16:51, Ondrej Zajicek <santiago at crfreenet.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 04:16:42PM +0000, Kaj Niemi wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Well. It’s slightly different but…. I think the real issue at hand is still that topline is made to fit the projected – the word “intended” comes to mind – budget.
>> 
>> A "normal" LIR, which I would imagine there are many of amongst the membership, with:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  *   an IPv4 /21 assigned 20-ish years ago
>>  *   an IPv4 /22 assigned from 185/8
>>  *   one ASN
>>  *   one IPv6 /32 assigned 20-ish years ago because they truly believed IPv6 is superior in all aspects and everyone would rush to deploy it immediately
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> According to data from Appendix 1 of Model A charging scheme, there is
> only 9.5 % of such 'normal' LIRs, while 46.7 % LIRs has just one /22,

My bet is that a large portion of these 46,7% became LIR with the sole purpose of obtaining that single /22 for later monetisation. These LIRs will fade away over time as they sell their IPs or merge.

Certainly not all are in this case; we do see a number of enterprises going the LIR route to become multihomed with own IP addresses. 

> so it is clearly advantageous variant for median LIR (as 6.2 % LIRs
> has just one /23).
> 
> So my image of 'normal' LIR is someone who did not bother to become LIR
> in the past, just used LIR services of its upstream, but when noticed
> that it cannot get more addresses that way anymore, it becomes LIR
> itself.

Largest number is not the same as normal. LIR’s actually using their IP space is closer to my definition of normal as in “expected behaviour”.

Cheers

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