[members-discuss] [ncc-announce] [GM] Consultation on RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2024

> Maybe it's time to considering to scale RIPE NCC down a bit, not
> growing but actual cuts in the budget and some cuts on all the nice
> things that's being done. In such a scenario, actual cuts, downsizing
> of staff are probably necessary, sadly.

Hello everyone,

I totally agree with that comment and none of the models is good:

- First: RIPE should cut off costs, maintain a budget and do more 
arbitrages like we all do on a daily basis for business or personally.

- Second: I disagree that non profit organisation should pay less. It 
will create more work at RIPE to distinguish who's who etc.
On top of that, people living in "poor" countries could claim that the 
price is unfair for them since what you can do with 1000€ in these 
countries is not the same with what you can do in Switzerland.
So the billing should be the same for everyone.


- Third: The pricing should be based on the consumption

- Fourth: There should be a pricing penalty on IPv4 ressources (not on 
BGP ASN, not on IPv6)
We are talking about IPv4 exhaustion, some new entrants cannot get 1 x 
/24 prefix for compatibility with IPv4 clients only. But others have lot 
of IPv4 because they were here first and because of that they are not 
motivated in moving to IPv6.
So in case, some money has to be found (after the RIPE spare money 
process), that should be on IPv4 resources. The price of IPv6 resources 
should be decreased.
Once again, the goal here is to make everyone to communicate on with 
another. If one has an IPv4 resource then he/she cannot.

The annual fee should be no more than 1000€, some say 500€ and include 
the equivalent up to a /24 IPv4 and one IPv6 resource. It should try to 
cover the work RIPE has to do for the annual billing and things like 
that.

Regards