We share this point. All long-standing SMALL LIRs which used their allocations properly along 20+ years would be penalized by model A, unless we agree to move the category boundary beyond /19+/22+/32, which used to be a standard SMALL category allocations for a decade or more. And as we can see earlier in this thread, in ARIN this is still SMALL category: https://www.arin.net/resources/fees/fee_schedule/ Larger than /20, up to and including /18 + Larger than /32, up to and including /28 = Small ($2000) Regards, Vitaly Zubok On 04.05.2023 16:21, J Pawlus wrote:
What makes the pay per category model "A" as proposed impossible for me to vote for is it penalizes all long standing lirs. When I started working with Ripe you signed up completed the forms and a /19 was allocated, more if you could demonstrate need but /19 was default. You then requested an AS. Run out came along and you could get a last /22 together with your v6 allocation. So that adds up to a /19, /22, AS and /32(or /29) That should be the bare minimum for small as it is what any long standing lir has with Ripe, yet they would now find themselves in category 6 at the high end of the scale. It does not mean they have more revenues than a lir started in say 2018 with much less IP resources, just that they started first. Note that I am not talking about the company I work for, we have more resources than those stated above, but I know several companies that fit into the category.
Brian
+1. This is very good point.
Best regards,
Jerzy Pawlus
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