<div dir="auto"><div>Hello,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I want to chime in with request for some kind of clarification. Please correct me if I'm wrong.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Original intent behind whole LIR and PI/PA concept was that LIRs were some kind of ISP that provided access to Internet for end users thus needed numerical resources. Since some of these customers might require persistent resources (addresses, asn etc), but they can't afford/don't want to be LIR themselves (for example hosting company). Thus idea of sponsored resources came into life (which btw should be solution for hobby nets and small organisations). </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This leads me to following questions:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">1. How many LIRs are organisations whose primary bussiness operation is providing access to Internet? </div><div dir="auto">2. Removing distinction between PI and PA (which I understand forces PI resources holder to open their own LIR account) should introduce new members. Can you please calculate how count of these new membership compares to current number of LIRs that are about to be closed/hold no resources?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best regards,</div><div dir="auto">Łukasz Jarosz</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">wt., 16 kwi 2024, 20:57 użytkownik Hans Petter Holen <<a href="mailto:hph@ripe.net">hph@ripe.net</a>> napisał:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Kaj,</div><div>Benchmarking is always useful, but sometimes comparing may be a bit difficult.</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 at 18:27, Kaj Niemi <<a href="mailto:kajtzu@basen.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">kajtzu@basen.net</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="ltr">
<div dir="ltr">RIPE, revenue 38M EUR (40M USD), members 20k = 2 k/member</div>
<div dir="ltr">ARIN, revenue 25M USD, members 25k = 1 k/member<span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">APNIC, revenue 33M AUD (21M USD), members 10k<span style="font-size:inherit"> = 2 k/member</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">LACNIC, revenue 10M USD, members 12k = 0.8 k/member<span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">AFRINIC, revenue 6M USD, members 2k = 3 k/member</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>APNIC and LACNIC has National Internet Registries that handle members in their countries which makes comparison difficult.</div><div><br></div><div>ARIN has recently changed their membership structure to include the equivalent of our End Users and individual ASN holders.</div><div>They have also removed the distinction between PI and PA.</div><div><br></div><div>If the RIPE NCC did the same, we would more than double the number of members and bring the average to less than 1k/member.</div><div><br></div></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">Sincerely,</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">Hans Petter Holen</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">RIPE NCC</span><br></div></div></div>
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