[address-policy-wg] ISPs selling IP address space

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Jørgen Hovland wrote:
> http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/charging2004.html
> As clearly stated in the above URL, RIPEs charging scheme is almost solely 
> based on how many ip addresses you require and it should be fairly easy to 
> calculate the direct cost of a /25 allocation vs a /27. It might not cost 
> that much in RIPE fees for a /25 or /27, but I don't see why an ISP shouldn't 
> be able to charge their customers using the same scheme if they wanted to 
> (and of course also add administrative fees etc).

Having such a cost distribution system would cost more for the ISP 
than what the gain is.  Really.  If you can this way optimizae that 
you're Medium instead of Large, you win 1500 EUR.  Such ISPs would 
have at least 100 customers, I'd guess.  So that's likely at maximum 1 
EUR/customer/mo.   Hardly something what's worth even thinking about 
in the billing department.

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