On Mon Sep 19, 2016 at 05:05:21PM +0200, Tom Lehtinen wrote:
RIPE NCC is currently the only RIR that is not charging differentiated fees depending on LIR size.
It is the future.
We all know that IPv4 addresses are shared resources and that we are running out of available resources.
IPv4 is game over, there is no point trying to engineer an optimal seating plan for the deck chairs
One way of safeguarding the number resources is to make sure that they are used efficiently. One way of making sure that the resources are used efficiently is to associate a cost with holding the resource.
It'd have to be a large cost to make it worth giving up space one might need later and end up having to buy back. An ipv4 address is around EU10 so at EU1 per year I'd hold on to it for another 10 years in case I need it, if I didn't I could sell it any time and break even/make a profit
For a new LIR, the annual fee is â¬1400 and that comes with a /22. Substracting the credit that was given to the LIRs in the previous years, we end up at a cost of roughly â¬1000/year for a LIR. This translates to approximately â¬1/IP or â¬250 per /24 per year.
At EU250 per /24 how much does that add up to for all RIPE space? What do you expect a not for profit like RIPE to do with all that income when it's already handing back excess income? With no use for the money other than handing it back there is no point charging it. brandon