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Simon-Jan, list,<span class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);">
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RIPE NCC Executive Board approves the submission of the
RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2025 options to the upcoming RIPE
NCC General Meeting for members to vote on.<br>
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Option A - Charging Scheme as is with 22.58% price
increase for the annual contribution per LIR account (EUR
1,900) and a 0% price increase for Independent Internet
number resource assignments* (EUR 50)<br>
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Option B - Charging Scheme as is with 20.97% price
increase for the annual contribution per LIR account (EUR
1,875) and a 50% price increase for Independent Internet
number resource assignments* (EUR 75)<br>
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Option C - Charging Scheme as is with 16.13% price
increase for the annual contribution per LIR account (EUR
1,800), a 50% price increase for Independent Internet
number resource assignments* (EUR 75) and a new AS Numbers
fee of EUR 50 per assignment</span></blockquote>
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<div>This charging scheme proposal ignores essential feedback from
the community for the last several years about the expenses of
RIPE NCC with respect to critical services of a registry, versus
other, non-critical services in the research and development
arena. The enumeration of services covered by the member fee
does not exhaustively list all projects and expenses from the
RIPE NCC, nor does it make a distinction which are necessary as
a part of the RIR services, versus which are nice to have.</div>
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<div>While I am not opposed to the options the board gave, per se,
I would vote for the repeatedly requested 'option D', and defund
non-critical, non-registry related activities before raising
membership prices. An operating expense of 40MM/yr strikes me as
an inefficient use of membership fees for the purposes of
operating a registry, and as others have pointed out: because
membership is required, it can be considered logical for
registry services, but it should not be taken as a given that
LIRs wish to fund non-registry services and projects.<br>
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I also find it questionable that the cost of registration
services are not scaled by size of allocation, as the # of
requests and administrative operations, as well as the compute
needed to run the registry's core services will likely scale
with number of objects/resources/operations, not with the number
of LIRs.<br>
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<div>groet,</div>
<div>Pim</div>
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Pim van Pelt <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:pim@ipng.ch"><pim@ipng.ch></a>
PBVP1-RIPE <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ipng.ch/">https://ipng.ch/</a></pre>
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