Charging Scheme 2025 Consultation

Overview

In May 2024, the RIPE NCC membership voted at the General Meeting on the Charging Scheme that will apply for them in 2025. Until the GM, we consulted with members on how that charging scheme should be formulated. 

This page provides information that members could use to fully participate in discussions with the relevant facts at hand.

The consultation process began formally at the RIPE NCC Open House that took place on 20 March, when we presented on the current financial situation of the RIPE NCC and asked for member input on how we should proceed with charging our members. The Executive Board met on 25 March to consider the input from the members and arrive at an initial proposal for them to consider. That proposal was published on 10 April.

On 24 April, the Executive Board finalised its proposed Charging Scheme 2025 options for the membership to vote on.

At the General Meeting on 22-24 May 2024, the members voted to approve model C, so the charging that will apply to members in 2025 has the following elements:

Charging Scheme 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

*Resources falling under this charge are IPv4 and IPv6 PI assignments; Anycast assignments; IPv4 and IPv6 IXP assignments; and Legacy IPv4 resource registrations through a sponsoring LIR.

Charging Scheme Proposals

On 10 April, we published the draft charging scheme proposals for 2025. This follows a resolution passed at the RIPE NCC Executive Board meeting on 25 March. The Board decided to continue with this proposal when it published the final charging scheme options for the membership to vote on at the General Meeting on 22-24 May.

Under this proposal, members were asked to consider three options to vote on:

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)

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)

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

*Resources falling under this charge are IPv4 and IPv6 PI assignments; Anycast assignments; IPv4 and IPv6 IXP assignments; and Legacy IPv4 resource registrations through a sponsoring LIR.

We also provided a calculator that members can use to assess what their fees would be in 2025 for each of the proposed options:

The email explaining the reasoning for proposing these three options was sent to the NCC Announce list by our CFO, Simon Jan Haytink. The Executive Board emailed the membership on 24 April to explain why it was proposing these three options to the members.

Members were asked to comment on the proposed options by 19 April on the members-discuss@ripe.net mailing list. We then published the final charging scheme options for members to vote on at the General Meeting.

Supporting Information

This section is aimed at providing relevant facts for members so they can take part in an informed discussion - we’ll update this section during the course of the consultation.

Relevant Documents

• May 2024 General Meeting Supporting Documents
• Draft Charging Scheme calculator
• Presentation on Considerations for RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2025
• The current RIPE NCC Charging Scheme
• The RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2024
• Recommendation from the Charging Scheme Task Force 2012
• Charging Scheme Questions and Answers

Development of the RIPE NCC Charging Scheme

1995 - A fixed fee depending on self-determined size of the registry

1997 - Members allocated to categories depending on resources held

2004 - 2009 - Administration fee (charged when resources were transferred or a RegID was changed) - originally a “takeover fee”

2010 - Started to charge EUR 50 for independent assignments

2012 - Charging Scheme Task Force established

2013 - Current “one LIR one-account” fee model is applied

2015 - Redistribution mechanism established

2022 - Sign-up reduced from EUR 2,000 to EUR 1,000

LIR Account Consolidation

The consolidation of multiple LIR accounts has changed the financial landscape that the RIPE NCC operates in. From a peak of 25,125 LIR accounts in 2019, we are looking at 20,500 for this year and a further reduction in 2025.