[ncc-services-wg] Policy proposal for services to legacy Internet resource holders

At 22:48 23/08/2012 +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:

>There are two sides to the problem.  On the one hand, ERX holders obtained
>address space without a governing contract and have been enjoying the
>benefits of this for many years.  On the other hand, someone is footing the
>bill for the maintenance and upkeep of this registration data - namely the
>RIPE NCC membership.
>
>Historically, the ERX holders have been happy with this situation as they
>received all of the privileges of address registration which were available
>to RIPE-assigned space and none of the responsibilities (i.e. payment).

I believe if you did an analysis of the 3000 allocations, you would find 
that many (my estimate - over 1700) are academic allocations and those 
NRENs are all paying members of RIPE NCC.  And they have probably been 
paying members far longer than 99.9% of the RIPE membership (Janet, 
Renater, GARR, Surfnet, SWITCH, IUCC, etc.).

But lets look at the fees as compared to ARIN:

https://www.arin.net/fees/fee_schedule.html

Legacy RSA:
"ARIN charges a $100 USD annual fee for coverage of legacy resources under 
the terms of the Legacy Registration Services Agreement (Legacy RSA). Org 
IDs already paying annual ISP or end user fees do not pay an additional fee 
to receive Legacy RSA coverage. There is no initial registration fee for 
legacy applicants, unless a transfer is required."

So, adopting a similar policy in RIPE NCC should be easy since there is a 
precedent.

-Hank