[members-discuss] is the self-assessment model really a good idea?

On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 20:43 +0200, Lu Heng wrote:

> Just want to make a quick common..."create some pressure on unused
> allocation" is largely untrue if you consider the IP price is at least
> 10USD and up. or you consider these large LIR's business size.
> 
> I believe all of them have no problem paying 10K euro a year.

Not so sure about this, just going by IPv4 allocations, if we assume
something like 600m IPv4 addresses for the total RIPE area, 
and assume that a large multi-national LIR maybe has an 
allocation of 30m, given a 20m RIPE budget makes about EUR 1m anually.
Now this LIR would  probably still have no problem paying that,
but I guess the relevant department will have some explaining to do
for this budget item ;) Still you are probably right, the 
financial pressure wouldn't be big enough to return
unused allocations.

Of course, the real trick is to factor in ever increasing
IPv6 allocations, so a continuous reduction of the costs per IP
should probably be in order, but I guess people wouldn't mind 
if their projected costs are lower than expected
in some years.