I see that you didn't read my letter at all. My a very small business as you said give me €1k per month. I've collected €1050 to pay my quarterly payment for 3 LIR's. If the RIPE will compels me to pay annual payments for these 3 LIR's, this amount will reach 1400x3 = €4200. And what do you offer me? Sell my house to pay this invoice? Or take a loan in a bank? To your knowledge, the interest on a loan may reach 40% annually. The only reason for such changes in billing scheme I see in the impending crisis of IPv4 and in this way RIPE wants to take back as more IPv4 blocks as they can, because I will be forced to close my LIR's if I would be forced to pay annually. Organizations like RIPE should work on improvement of the service but not on the complication of life for its members. Have a good day. -- Kind regards, Serhii Khomenko 08.01.19 13:22, Terrence Koeman пише:
With all the confusion around billing I've seen on this list, I understand RIPE discontinuing their service of allowing quarterly payments.
You can get a loan to bridge the first year and save up for subsequent years, essentially replacing RIPE's free service by a commercial one with an interest for the first year and by saving up yourself for the following years.
The extra costs of this change are only the interest for such a business loan (which depends on the inflation of the currency your business uses, but for EUR currently around 3-6% afaik). Even if it were 10% interest on the €1k4 fee it'd be €140 spread out over a year (=€12/month), that should not be a burden even for a very small business.