Hi there,

Since RIPE can no longer provide every member with the resources they need, fairness is gone. Leaving the flat fee model can help mitigate this.

With the current proposition I see two issues :
1. The maximum fee used for calculations (10k€) is too low. 
2. Fees curve is too flat :  Base fee apart, for one member with just one /22 it would cost 768€. For a member holding a /8 or equivalent, it is a cost of 0,53€ per /22.
That's a really big discount. I can accept a ten times volume discount, but a 1500 times one?

My attempt :
The general idea is to say someone in top category (/7) will have 16x price reduction per block as per someone in (/22). In category /8 that would be 15x, /9 14x etc.
Then we scale to the 30M€ budget + 10M€ of base fees.
That gives, base fee included :
500 none
786 /24 to /23
818 /23 to /22
850 /22 to /21
924 /21 to /20
1,136 /20 to /19
1,518 /19 to /18
2,196 /18 to /17
3,407 /17 to /16
5,588 /16 to /15
9,545 /15 to /14
16,780 /14 to /13
30,100 /13 to /12
54,768 /12 to /11
100,686 /11 to /10
186,560 /10 to /9
347,812 /9 to /8
651,711 /8 to /7
The fee of one member of the highest category will represent about 1.5% of total income (we have 4 such members, see table in tab #2 of the Model_A spreadsheet).
Compared with figures from the chart about other RIRs that make a fee /10 a bit below LACNIC.


On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 5:29 PM Akayo <ripe@akayo.eu> wrote:
Hi Ben!

Of course I do agree that "whale customers" are not a good idea as well since this would put the independency of the RIPE NCC on risk.

However, even if we would use a way more balanced category based model, we are still miles away from such a risk because I was not speaking about millions or even hundreds of thousands of fees for the largest LIRs. But it simply doesn't make much sense if the largest LIRs pay a few thousand EUR per year while even small LIRs pay a few thousand EUR per year as well.

--Kayo

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