Charging for allocations

For two years Israel has been handling "allocations" in a free
fashion.  Lately, as I am sure with everyone, the burden of
registering IP class C networks, domain names, contact people,
inverse domain names, and routing updates is taking more and
more of our time, personnel and our national DNS primary CPU.

It is not uncommon for sites that have no Internet connectivity to
request IP numbers for their private networks.  It is not uncommon
for local dialup (SLIP) service providers asking for us to register
domain names on their behalf and then charging their customers
a monthly fee for the "privilege" of owning their own "DNS" entry.

When the entire matter was on a one or two request per month
basis, the university non-profit consortium was able to handle
the requests on a volunteer basis.  This is no longer the case.
We have no NSF to fund a scaled down Internic (which handles
requests free of charge since it is government funded) on a national
scale and since RIPE NCC charges its member countries an annual
fee we have to find a "fair" way to recover not only the RIPE NCC
costs but also the local manpower and computing costs.

We are planning on implementing the following surcharges:

   - Any organization wanting a class C IP network will be charged
     $xx per class C network assigned.
   - Any organization wanting a domain name assigned in the .il
     domain will be charged $xx.
   - Any organization that wants ILAN to handle inverse domain
     name registration will be charged $xx.
   - Any organization that wants its IP network to be routed globally
     will be charged $xx.

I would like to hear what other countries who are in a similar
position are doing in this area.  Should we already start discussing
numbers?

Thanks,
Hank