[members-discuss] [ncc-announce] [GM] Consultation on RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2024

Hi,

just my 2 cents:

 1. @RIPE NCC, you want to be a company, but *you are not a company*.
    You are a non profit organisation which should behave in the
    interest of its members.
 2. Before increasing prices again (since the last invoice was already
    doubled), you should check out other options to reduce your
    expenses, like any other organisation has to do on the free market.
    Do you really need an office direct at the Amsterdam Centraal
    station? Or would another (not so fancy) location be cheaper? Do you
    really need to sponsor tons of projects? Or should you focuss more
    on your core things? With this massive price increasements, you
    bring many small members into financial trouble.
 3. Model 1 is unfair in my opinion
 4. Model 2 is my preference, but it is unfair too. As some other people
    mentioned, the price is good for 1x v4, 1x v6, 1x ASN, or n*/8 and a
    ton of ASNs. While categories are increasing VERY fast with only a
    small amount of resources, large companies have a cost cap and "a
    few more networks" have no impact on the price.
 5. Also I strongly disagree with counting PI and ASN assignments
    towards the category. This leads to very big or very small LIRs
    being able to offer better prices to their customers than medium
    LIRs. Also these resources are already paid with the 50€/y fee.
    Please also keep in mind that LIRs save you a lot of effort with all
    the document checking, communication with customers etc etc. Also, a
    lot of LIRs would just terminate all End User Agreements to reach a
    lower category. I'm not sure if this is what you want.

Best regards
Patrick
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