Hi Stefan,
Additionally, as I understand it this is something that needs to be voted on, I would like to lower the initial signup fee of currently 2000,00 Euros down to just 500,00 Euros. In case they request an additional /24 after twelve months they will need to pay an additional instalment of 500,00 Euros which will bring the total amount still to 2000,00 Euros if they requested 4x /24 allocations over a period of 4 years. After each allocation the RIPE NCC will aggregate the allocation whenever possible. Subsequently if a new member requests a second /24 the allocation will be enlarged to a /23. In the end he will be left with one /22 if there is sufficient consecutive address space left to do so.
In cases where the Local Internet Registry does not require any IPv4 address space it should also not be required to pay any fees apart from the membership fees.
Membership fees are out-of-scope for the RIPE Address Policy Working Group. The RIPE community makes the policy, the RIPE NCC and its members determine the membership fees. This working group is part of the RIPE community and not involved in setting membership fees. Cheers, Sander