On 04/08/2011 10:39, Simon Lockhart wrote:
For example, here's another pricing model which could work (prices completely made up on the spot, so don't judge fairness on the numbers I use):
Membership Fee (per year): EUR 1000
Per allocation costs: First Year Subsequent Years IPv4 (up to /22): EUR 100 EUR 50 IPv4 (/21 to /20): EUR 200 EUR 50 IPv4 (/19 to /16): EUR 400 EUR 100 IPv4 (/15 to /12): EUR 800 EUR 100 IPv4 (over /12): EUR 1500 EUR 200
IPv6 (/32): EUR 100 EUR 50 IPv6 (Over /32): EUR 400 EUR 50
ASN: EUR 100 EUR 50
Other objects: EUR 400 EUR 50
In here, the membership fee is designed to cover all the other RIPE services - Atlas, Labs, Meetings, etc, etc. There is of course the option to have a "Membership Lite" at a reduced rate with restrictions (only one IPv4, one IPv6 and one ASN allocation, no access to other services or RIPE meetings).
This is a much better structure for the membership fees (and easy for a new/existing member to calculate) might be easier to split the first year into a 'successful application fee' and annual fee. The other thing could be to include 1 ASN, 1 v4 and 1 v6 (regardless of size) in the standard membership fee and then have another category which covered small object holders with out the 'package'. Would be nice to see how this worked with 'real numbers' rather than holding ones. J -- James Blessing +44 7989 039 476 Strategic Relations Manager, EMEA Limelight Networks