[members-discuss] Input from Membership on RIPE NCC Charging Scheme Model

On 13/09/2016, 12:15, "members-discuss on behalf of Nigel Titley" <members-discuss-bounces at ripe.net on behalf of nigel at titley.com> wrote:

>    The Executive Board therefore proposes to discuss this issue at the
>    upcoming GM. We ask that prior to the GM the membership discusses this
>    issue on <members-discuss at ripe.net>, keeping the discussion focused on
>    whether or not the "one LIR-one fee" model is the best model for RIPE
>    NCC charging schemes and, if not, what the alternative should be.

Hi,

The idea of a per LIR fee only seems to be (in principle) a good idea and one that I believe that should be retained by RIPE.

However, there are a number of reasons to move to move to a system where 80% (a number plucked from the air) of the costs are made up from *all* members and the remainder made up based on the impact of individual members on the operational costs maintaining RIPE.

How you calculate these costs would of course depend on a number of different factors and I can see different members proposing things to their own benefit (and therefore the detriment of others) without reference to a single “goal”.

I therefore propose that the remaining costs apportions are focused on two separate goals “accuracy of the database” and “conservation of scarce resource” if a proposal does not fit within *both* of these goals then it should be rejected as being not in the interest of the wider community.

If we, as a community, cannot achieve changes that meet both these goals then I suggest we stay with the status quo.

Thx

J
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