On 22/04/2026 19:29, Kai Siering via members-discuss wrote: You hit the nail on its head. These different pricing models end up pitting one group vs the other when we all should be demanding that RIPE NCC's budget be capped and reduced. That issue has come up numerous times but unfortunately nothing has ever come of it. We are therefore doomed to a steadily increasing budget, ad infinitum. Regards, Hank
Moin,
I'm still not convinced that the way it is, having the Executive solely approve the Activity Plan – and therefore the costs of RIPE NCC – and the members later on can only decide how these costs are to be paid my the members, is a valid model anymore. From my point of view, 42,500,000 EUR is quite some money to simply run a RIR that started as a simple database with a mnail frontend for regional internet ressources and that amount is what we as members should not only discuss about, but also decide on. If one looks at https://www.ripe.net/media/documents/ ripe-850.pdf, in 2026 only 246 of each member's 1800 EUR are spend for services related to the Registry itself, a mere 13.6%.
It's not about "buying as cheap as possible", but about right-sizing this membership organisation and the services it provides – to it's members and the Internet in general – to what is strictly neccessary — or at least deemed nice-to-have by vote by a majority of the members.
Therefore it is not the Charging Scheme, the root cause of these repeating discussions is the ever increasing budget of RIPE NCC and the membership's inability to address that.
Regards, -kai