Hi, On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 09:21:01AM +0100, Shane Kerr wrote:
(*) I guess? I admit to never having read the details of how charging is set, since I have never represented a RIPE NCC member.
members vote at the RIPE AGM, to select one out of a number of possible charging schemes proposed by the board (or just "this is the new one, accept it or not?"). Since this is about money, it's real voting - and of course the members are free to ignore whatever arguments the community brings forward. Note that there *was* a fee for ASNs, which led to massive complaints by some people at an ENOG meeting, and then the NCC management promised "to do away with it" - so the next charging scheme proposed did not include the ASN fee anymore (and the members had the choice of "approve" or "keep the old one, which might not give us enough moneyz to fund all the toys, so drama"). Politics and smoke filled rooms at its best. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard, Michael Emmer Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279