W dniu 09.07.2012 17:43, eifel-net GmbH pisze:
Hello,
for us the new charging model seems to be unbalanced. Bigger LIR, as for example big telcos (Deutsche Telekom in germany for example with lots of ip-adresses in use) seem to pay much less for the service for each ipv4 they use, compared to small onces, as there is a fee-limit of aprox. 5000 EUR yearly. For smaller companies the new model will be an increase in cost, as the border to small as /22 is not high enough, so that they will be billed as regular (thus 50% of big LIR!). Next problem is, that big LIR may pick category "small" without beeing punished.
Peter
I don't really get that. It happens on the list from time to time, when people start to complaing about charging. The truth is if you are planning to be a LIR it means that you are no longer a little company, because if you were, you could stay with PA from your ISP oraz PI if multihomed. We did it that way for years but then our upstream ISP refused giving more PI so we had to become a LIR. You need to pay for the rent, upstreams bandwith, electricity, and so on. RIPE fee is another on the list. So if you are whining about 2.5k EUR of yearly payment then you should rethink your buissness. If you get /22 it is 1024 addresses, substracting this and that (devices, routers, servers) you can cover about 800 customers, each and every one with own public IP. It means that you need to pay about 3 EUR a year per customer. It is about 26 euro cents per month. That amount is so ridicoulus, that you should spend more time expanding your network than complaining about RIPE fees. My two cents. Have a nice day -- Michał Margula :: <michal.margula@acsystemy.pl> AC Systemy Komputerowe Stanisław Bor spółka jawna 72-600 Świnoujście :: ul. Bohaterów Września 50/4 :: NIP 855-12-99-281