On 10/03/2026 13:02:00, thiele@holomua.de wrote:
RIPE NCC set conditions for the working group in advance that were intended to prevent any discussion of a pricing model based linearly on the amount of RIPE resources (IPs, etc.) used. As a result, only the price limits of models and various ancillary costs can now be discussed.
"you are welcome to argue the niceties of a scheme that has been repeatedly dismissed"
The models currently presented disadvantage all small and medium-sized users and favor the large early adopters.
This is why we vote for the fixed fee each time, if the offered variable rates suited the higher number of smaller members then they would have been accepted previously.
It is regrettable that the entire discussion on the pricing model could not/was not allowed to be conducted in an open-ended manner, taking into account another possible model with a linear resource-dependent cost approach.
I don’t think linear will ever be offered and really what is the point. V4 is done, trying to rinse those with laods may have a feel good factor but not for very long. Assuming V6 does get there, and really the only reason it hasn’t is us the industry we can’t blame anyone else, then we will be back to a small range of allocaiton sizes to try and bodge into a category model, so really back to flat rate. brandon