Hi, On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 03:09:30PM +0200, Patrick Velder wrote:
Apart from that, the membership said "no" twice to ASN fees. Introducing them through the back door is not fair and will probably fail a 3rd time. Please accept the fact that the community does not want ASN fees.
We had ASN fees, and they disappeared through a less-than-transparent process. The AP WG has clearly voiced a need for an ASN reclaim mechanism that is more cost efficient than "hostmasters calling up members on a regular basis and asking 'is this still in use?'" - and a yearly fee, trivially affordable but annoying enough to question yourself(!) "do I still need that?" is working nicely. So it's up there for a vote again - and this has nothing to do with "backdoor". It's one option. It will *lower* the fee for all members that have 0 or 1 ASN, and members that hand out ASNs like they are free should have had this in their financial plannings. Our sponsoring LIR contracts all have the clause "and we charge whatever RIPE asks us for, plus a handling fee"... Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard, Ingo Lalla, Karin Schuler Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279