[ncc-services-wg] 2012-07's direct engagement option

Hi Randy,

I have some sympathy for your point of view, but also see some 
consecuences of it:

On 21/04/2014 15:14, Randy Bush wrote:
> i am a legacy holder.  i get dns, whois, ... now, for free.  i do not
> wish to be beholden to an LIR.  i am quite willing to pay a couple
> hundred euros/year for a cert.  i am not willing to pay 1,800, it's
> outrageous.

How is this different from a new LIR that only gets a /22?
Some of them have even expressed that they think thoose who have large 
amounts of address space should pay much more.

I seem to rememeber from the budget discussion when the one-member-one 
fee structure was passed that the expenses were roughly in 3 parts
- a) registration services
- b) supporting open policy fora such as RIPE meetings
- c) other services like Atlas, DNSmon...

If you - as a legacy holder - should be able to "opt-out" of b and c,
why should I (read a new LIR with only a /22 or any other LIR) not be 
allowed to do the same?

I seem to recall, as Tore stated, that this was excactly the discussion 
we had when the "one member one fee" structure was put in place.

-hph