RIPE NCC has annual fees, both for joining and for continuing membership. In the first calendar year you owed both.

You became a member in year 2018, so you owe for year 2018.

The fact that fee is divided into quarters is just to make it easier to pay, although frankly I don’t see the point; you have to do four bank transfers and all you save is 1/2 of the year on average; so time value of money must be really high for it to work.

If the member fee would be pro-rated (reduced for the months you were not a member) then somebody would open an account in November and transfer resources in December, for 1/4 of the yearly cost paid.
And this is precisely what the rule is for.

On Jul 9, 2018, at 21:03, olena.dmytrenko@bignet.ua wrote:

Dear all,
Our LIR has signed agreement in April of the 2018 year.
How can we pay the invoice on the service which wasn't given to us. How can you pay for the service which was earlier than the agreement?

--
Olena Dmytrenko


From: Adi Vaizovic <adi.vaizovic@telinea.com>
To: Mohamed Bubtaina <mohamed@bubtaina.com>, "olena.dmytrenko@bignet.ua" <olena.dmytrenko@bignet.ua>
Cc: "members-discuss@ripe.net" <members-discuss@ripe.net>
Sent: 7/9/2018 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: [members-discuss] RIPE forces us to pay the bill unfairly

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