[ncc-services-wg] 2007-01 Phase 2 Implementation: Direct Internet Resource Assignments to End Users from the RIPE NCC

On Thu, 28 May 2009, Sander Steffann wrote:

> Why? You get charged for the resources that those end users have. It is not 
> strange to charge them for that amount. There is no way for them to keep 
> those resources without paying the amount set in the charging scheme by the 
> RIPE NCC General Meeting. The same as an LIR who has to pay the RIPE NCC 
> membership fees set in the same charging scheme. You as an LIR have signed a 
> contract with the NCC without knowing the exact amount that you will be 
> charged next year. Why would an end user be any different?

When we allocated ASNs (just an ASN - not PI space) to some organizations 
13 years ago we did not assume that RIPE would start charging per ASN 
allocation *and* retroactively as well.  May not be legally valid from an 
EU standpoint, but we do not have the resources to contest it.  So we just 
eat the cost.

-Hank