On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Marcin Gondek wrote:
If the price will be higher, then everybody join to RIPE as LIR. And then we will have +1000% of LIRs. Do "we" need this? Now everybody is waiting for some kind of statesment or procedure from RIPE side.
I don't really care, I want that there should be a recurring cost involved with having a route in DFZ. If that money goes to RIPE, so be it. I know people today that could renumber to another /24 from their existing /24 in a matter of a few hours, yet they still have a /24 PI for convenience. If the cost was 1000EUR per year (doesn't matter if it's LIR membership cost or something else) only people that actually value this highly will have it. It might be coupled to having a route object attached to the IP space in question that actually triggers the cost, so people who need PI but who are not going to announce them can have them for free. I would happily advocate this for IPv4 as well but I think that train left the station long ago. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se