[members-discuss] Charging Scheme Models 2024

On Wed Apr 12, 2023 at 10:43:41PM +0200, Akayo wrote:
> Today we received the email of 12th April 2023 about the RIPE NCC
> charging scheme models A, B and C for 2024. Of course we used the
> calculator to find out how much we would be required to pay in
> future for option A.

It feels like we're being gamed here but I don't know why.

RIPE run this calculation for billing each year, it seems a needless
distraction to have everyone run it themselves when they could send us
the results for each option.

Similarly they can work out which is the best option for each LIR and
total them up to figure which would win the vote if particpation was
even.

All this though is distracting from the fundamental issue of having
expanded/become more costly on the back of new LIRs mining the last IP
block, mostly for profit it seems as we're now facing them selling up.

The priority should be to agree what we want to spend and then how we
want to split it up. I was fine letting RIPE make up a budget while
the previous cost models were not expensive, now it looks to become
expensive I'm no longer happy with that.

I think the best option is to use current model, which is least worst
as we've all been paying it for some years, apply RPI increase, then
let RIPE determine how to live within it. Then we don't have all try
and determine a viable business model for something we don't really
know much detail of.

brandon