[members-discuss] Membership Fee Question

Le 24/02/2020 à 16:15, Ali Vargonen a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to ask you about the membership fee costs of RIPE, today I learned something new.
> Maybe it was something common and I was not aware of it.
> 
> As a member, you need to pay the full amount for the annual year 2020, if you just use the services for 10 days and terminate your membership with Ripe, so if you use services for 10 or 365 days you will be charged the same amount.
> 
> I asked if it is possible to make it at least Q based, but this is not an option, 6 months based, not an option.
> 
> You need to pay full year and it is not based on the number of days or (Q based) you are a member of RIPE in the year.
> 
> Interesting information for me, I do not think its fair, but everybody could think differently. I would like to get your opinions about it.
> 
> Is it fair to charge a member, who will not be a member in Q2 + Q3 + Q4 for the annual year?
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> A.V.

Hello,
I think we should more think in term of commitment. We are a community.
Being a member is far more than paying for IPs (GM, training, Atlas,
RPKI and a lot more). Some did forget that as v4 became a rare resource.

Based on this assumption, my opinion is that it's completely fair to be
billed for the whole year without consideration for the closing date of
a LIR.

What is a less fair is to loose all membership benefits as soon as you
closed the LIR : one should be able to vote at the GM, register for
training sessions, even being a WG chair until the end of paid year.
Ok, perhaps isn't it mandatory to be a member for some of these but you
got the point.

Simple idea : ask to close your LIR AFTER the october GM and that's all.

Julien