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

Hello,


There is no basis for any LIR membership fee to be based on the IPv4 
allocated address space and there are several reasons for this:

- RIPE has never charged LIRs for IP addresses
- It is true that at the beginning RIPE membership fee was based on 
  categories, as far as I remember: SMALL, MEDIUM, LARGE and EXTRA LARGE,
  but it was because of work required to serve IPv4 resources.
  At that time IPv4 allocation and assignement policies had to be developed,
  every allocation of IPv4 address space to a LIR had to be checked and
  done by RIPE. What is more, if the IPv4 assignement made by a LIR
  to its End User exceeded the LIR Window size such assignement had to be
  checked and approved by the RIPE staff. RevDNS for allocated resources 
  had to be made. This work is long gone.
- The amount of work required to serve leftover IPv4 space cannot be compared
  to what it was required before
- As far as I know RIPE does not pay IANA for IPv4 space allocated to Europe
  Region and any attempt of RIPE to require such payment from LIRs should be
  considered major abuse of RIPE mandate as a RIR.


In conclusion, RIPE has always charged its members for Services not an address
space. If a reverse model is to be developed it has to be with IANA cooperation.
But in my opinion it could lead to splitting Internet to many privately
administered parts.

Kind regards,

Jerzy Pawlus
ACK Cyfronet AGH