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

Il 04/05/23 15:50, Andrea Borghi ha scritto:
> On Wednesday 03 May 2023 18:56:37 Brian Turnbow via members-discuss wrote:
>>
>> What makes  the pay per category model  "A" as proposed impossible for me
>> to vote for is it penalizes all long standing lirs. When I started working
>>   with Ripe you signed up completed the forms and a /19 was allocated, more
>> if you could demonstrate need but /19 was default. You then requested an
>> AS. Run out came along and you could get a last /22 together with your  v6
>> allocation. So that adds up to a /19, /22, AS and /32(or /29)
>> That should be the bare minimum for small as  it is what any long standing
>> lir has with Ripe, yet they would now find themselves in category 6 at the
>> high end of the scale. It does not mean they have more revenues than a lir
>> started in say 2018 with much less IP  resources, just that they started
>> first. Note that I am not talking about the company I work for, we have
>> more resources than those stated above, but I know several companies that
>> fit into the category.
> 
> I second that. The RIPE partecipation for my company, resource wise, is the
> default allocation that was given to me at the time of registration and the
> subsequent allocation exactly as described above.
> 
> The work I, as a company, generate for RIPE is minimal but the model A
> substantially increase the annual fee.
> 
> I think I, as the others in the same ballpark, should be treated as SMALL (=
> we had only the default allocations, no more than that), and there must be a
> lower category only for who is registered but has no v4 allocation (= is in
> wait list).
> 
> THe model A proposed by RIPE instead is elevating the yesterday's SMALL to a
> much higher category in a manner non compatible with the SMALL partecipants
> business models.
> 
> the 2022 fee for me was about 1% of my gross income. elevating that is
> profundly unjust when the fee for the large enterprises is a 0.00_1% of their
> gross income. (feel free to add zeros in the place of the '_').
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
>    Andrea Borghi
> 
I agree with Andrea , many big providers got many v4 allocations . These 
allocations are not all allocated or routed , just parked .