[members-discuss] Voting for RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2024

On Wed May 24, 2023 at 12:05:20PM +0200, Q Misell via members-discuss wrote:
> You have misunderstood how IRV/STV works.
> If the majority are against charging scheme A, but are otherwise split
> across the other charging schemes IRV will ensure that scheme A does not
> win.

That's true but it distracts from the real issue - choosing categories
such that the large number of new LIRs that enabled and now put at risk the
budget growth are in a category where they will get a reduction at the
expense of other members. They and the rest of the very small members
make up around 67% of the votes.

If A wins and as RIPE predict those with many LIRs condense them it will
further disadvantage longer standing members with the lower to middle sizes
seeing further large increases (as a per IP vote has been avoided the
large are not affected much) next year.

Currently the previous scheme is the fairest option offered, get voting
as those who will save money outnumber the rest.

If A wins I guess a deeper budget discussion will be needed next
time to bring the costs down again and probably result in larger cuts
than if RIPE hadn't set members up against each other in this way.

brandon