[members-discuss] [ncc-announce] [GM] Draft RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2025 Proposals

Hi Simon-Jan, list,

    The RIPE NCC Executive Board approves the submission of the RIPE NCC
    Charging Scheme 2025 options to the upcoming RIPE NCC General
    Meeting for members to vote on.

    - Option A  -  Charging Scheme as is with 22.58% price increase for
    the annual contribution per LIR account (EUR 1,900) and a 0% price
    increase for Independent Internet number resource assignments* (EUR 50)
    - Option B  -  Charging Scheme as is with 20.97% price increase for
    the annual contribution per LIR account (EUR 1,875) and a 50% price
    increase for Independent Internet number resource assignments* (EUR 75)
    - Option C  -  Charging Scheme as is with 16.13% price increase for
    the annual contribution per LIR account (EUR 1,800), a 50% price
    increase for Independent Internet number resource assignments* (EUR
    75) and a new AS Numbers fee of EUR 50 per assignment


This charging scheme proposal ignores essential feedback from the 
community for the last several years about the expenses of RIPE NCC with 
respect to critical services of a registry, versus other, non-critical 
services in the research and development arena. The enumeration of 
services covered by the member fee does not exhaustively list all 
projects and expenses from the RIPE NCC, nor does it make a distinction 
which are necessary as a part of the RIR services, versus which are nice 
to have.

While I am not opposed to the options the board gave, per se, I would 
vote for the repeatedly requested 'option D', and defund non-critical, 
non-registry related activities before raising membership prices. An 
operating expense of 40MM/yr strikes me as an inefficient use of 
membership fees for the purposes of operating a registry, and as others 
have pointed out: because membership is required, it can be considered 
logical for registry services, but it should not be taken as a given 
that LIRs wish to fund non-registry services and projects.

I also find it questionable that the cost of registration services are 
not scaled by size of allocation, as the # of requests and 
administrative operations, as well as the compute needed to run the 
registry's core services will likely scale with number of 
objects/resources/operations, not with the number of LIRs.

groet,
Pim

-- 
Pim van Pelt<pim at ipng.ch>
PBVP1-RIPEhttps://ipng.ch/
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