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Carlos Friaças
cfriacas at fccn.pt
Mon May 1 08:51:05 CEST 2023
Greetings, I still see an overall budget of 38M to be greatly above of what it should be. Regards, Carlos On Fri, 28 Apr 2023, Brandon Butterworth wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > members-discuss mailing list > members-discuss at ripe.net > https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/members-discuss > Unsubscribe: https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/options/members-discuss/cfriacas%40fccn.pt >
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