[members-discuss] [ncc-announce] [GM] Final RIPE NCC Charging Schemes for Members to Vote On

This vote looks rigged (hopefully unintentionally)

Vote 1:
Model A: Category-based model, (projected income: EUR 42M)
Model B: Continuation of the one LIR, one fee model with a 10% LIR fee price increase (projected income: EUR 42M)
Model C: Continuation of the one LIR, one fee model with a 5% LIR fee price increase (projected income: EUR 40M)
Model D: Continuation of the one LIR, one fee model that is exactly the same as the 2023 model (projected income: EUR 38M)

Three of the choices divide the vote for the current model while the 
one alternative model is category based with unfavourable lower 
category pricing, there is no per IP model choice.

The categories are break even vs the current model at around category 3 
to 4 while category 3 and below are 67.78% of membership.

Thus it appears this is set up to ensure model A wins - the non A vote 
is split 3 ways making it quite unlikely to get close to model A votes 
where the categories favour the bulk of members who joined in the run
out IP grab race.

Per IP the lower categories are paying a lot more, it just happens that 
is currently lower than the existing model. This may not continue in 
the future. When a lot of these LIRs close, as RIPE are expecting in 
requesting this model change, then those remaining in the lower 
categories will shoulder an even larger portion of the costs. Be 
careful what you vote for, you could end up paying a lot more later.

This vote also ensures RIPE will get a 10% rise in income, these is no 
model that is likely to get sufficient votes to avoid that.

Now I don't mind that 10% increase as an RPI thing but that could have 
been done by just adding RPI this year and not greatly distorting the
cost model fairness to achieve it.

Model A is turkeys voting for xmas.

A more reasonable vote is A vs D with a separate vote on allowing
a 5 or 10% increase on D should it be chosen as that gives those
who think the budget has grown too large on the back of the IP
runout race a way to experess that.

brandon