On 24-mrt-05, at 9:58, Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote:

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I would also be very happy if RIPE would charge enough money to people wanting to do this to make them consider whether they really need it.

...this is just a fuzzy wording for:

"Make the RIRs sell address space at different (and maximum) premiums, depending on how dearly the applicant needs the addresses at that particular point in time."

I would not support such a proposal.

No, what it means is: "People who inject routes in the global routing table, for whatever reason, increase the cost of operating routers. So for reasons of fairness and as a mild deterrent, these people should bear a generous share of the costs associated with operating the RIR infrastructure." A good way to do this would be to require everyone who wants such a block to become a RIR and to charge address based costs only on the number of blocks and not on their size. Note that I'm not saying these people should pay an artificially inflated fee (although deep in my heart I would love that), just their fair share. It shouldn't be cheaper to obtain a special prefix than a regular one. Also, there should be limits on the number of special prefixes.