[address-policy-wg] late conciliatory response to 2014-03

* "Sascha Luck [ml]" <apwg at c4inet.net>

> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 01:42:49PM -0800, Sander Steffann wrote:
> 
> >- do we wait for the next RIPE NCC charging scheme to see if
> >that solves our problems?
> 
> I'm not in favour of this. What I want to see is that the
> membership fee covers all my dealings with the NCC. In small
> companies, you often have to get budgetary approval for even
> EUR50, and I'm in *no* mood to explain to a bean-counter (or the
> boss's wife) what an ASN is and why I need 50 quid to pay for
> another one.

Hi Sascha,

Would an ASN charge be more palatable to you if the membership fee
included a quota of 1 (or N) gratis ASNs? Or perhaps that the already
existing IPv4/IPv6 PI charge would include 1 gratis ASN per resource?

I'm thinking that as long as N is a quite modest number, this does not
cause any real abuse potential and at the same time it would make it
more likely that the membership would agree to having an ASN fee put in
place - as the vast majority of us won't actually have to pay anything
more than we do today.

(I'm well aware that this is outside of APWG's jurisdiction though.
Just thinking out loud, perhaps some board members are listening...)

Tore