On Wed, 17 Apr 2024, at 14:56, Evgeniy Brodskiy via members-discuss wrote:

I love those confidential markings :)

Thank you.

I agree with you, today there is practically no sense in shifting between RIRs.

But if someone says you'll pay 10 times (or even bigger) what you pay today because the current fee is "simply unfair", inter RIRs transfer might be an option to think.

In that case everything will be fair. Small LIR will stay in RIPE with fair, per single IP, share of spends and big LIRs will receive registry services from other RIRs.

At least I don't see any other options to make everybody happy with fees.

And this is why we have this balance:

for a big IPv4 block LIR (from the RIPE region), it's very comfortable to stay in the RIPE region and save a lot of euros,

for a smaller IPv4 block LIR, the cost of moving to ARIN or LACNIC is too high, and the risk is not worth the savings,

For an IPv4-less LIR, there is no way to get these addresses faster anyway (they are on the waiting list).

So nobody leaves the big boy-friendly club, and those who have been staying for a long time enjoy the benefits of membership, meetings, training, Atlas, you name it. And the General Meetings, of course. (I enjoy it all, too.)