[lir-wg] 50% increase in RIPE fees ? Since when ?

| Sorry, maybe I do not participate quite as much as I would like, but the
fee
| for a SMALL registry has increased by  more that 50% in a year. I just
got
| the invoice and had to back track. My budgets are somewhat unbalanced
now...
|
| That is somewhat high a jump isn't it ? What is the average EU inflation
| figure ? 4% ?

While the increase in the fee for SMALL lirs is indeed 53% from 2002 to
2003
it may be useful to look back some years to get the complete picure:

     RIPE doc # Small Medium Large Enterprise Signup fee
      2003 265 2 750 3 750 5 250 2 750 2 500
      2002 237 1 800 2 500 3 400 1 800 2 100
      2001 215 2 100 2 950 3 900 2 100 2 100
     199 2 400 3 350 4 400 2 400 2 100
      1999 188 2 650 3 700 4 900 2 650 2 100
      1998 175 2 450 2 400 4 500 2 450 2 000
      1997 151 2 200 3 000 4 000 2 200 1 300
      1996 143 1 500 4 500 8 500  2 000
      1995 134 2 000 6 000 12 000 1 000
      1994 84 3 000 6 000 10 000 1 000
      1993 84 2 250 4 500 7 500


As you can see from this the fee was actually lowered by 9%, 13% and 14%
the
3 previous years, so the fee is no back € 100 above the level it was in
1999. It is still lower than the all time high in 1994.

| Can someone from the RIPE management comment on how much money is spent
on
| non-core (IP management, co-ordination and associated registry activities)
?

ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-255.txt

Looking at the revenues some of the revenue stream are directly related
to
some of the activities
If I assume Meetings => Coordination, ENUM => new projects, TTM => TTM,
Interest => Surplus and adjust the costs of theese before I do a split I
get
the following split of the fee for the small LIR:

      Registration 44 % 1 209
      Coordination 26 % 726
      TTM 3 % 92
      New 7 % 182
      Admin 12 % 339


      Surplus 7 % 202
     100 % 2 750


I realise there are several inacuracies in this algoritm but it gives some
picture on how the money are spent.

It may also be useful to compare with the other registries:

     RIPE ARIN APNIC LACNIC
     € $ $
      Small 2 750 2 500 2 500 2 500
      Medium 3 750 5 000 5 000 5 000
      Large 5 250 10 000 10 000 10 000
      X-Large  20 000  20 000


In this comparison there are several inaccuracies as I have used the first
year fee for ARIN and LACNIC, the renewal fees are slightly lower, and the
categories probably differ a bit from region to region.

My observation from this picture however is that RIPE charges the small
LIRs
relatively more that the large LIRs.

-hph

Med Vennlig Hilsen // Best Regards,
Hans Petter Holen