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 Am 22.04.26 um 11:41 schrieb Andreas Grabmüller | QuarIT GmbH:
There have been calculators during the discussions, in Excel form. Personally, I dislike the calculators. They reinforce the mindset of "I'll vote for what allows me to pay the least".
This is a membership organization and not some company we try to buy as cheap as possible from. In my opinion the voting should be about what we think is the fairest model and the one that allows RIPE NCC to function for the years to come. I happen to think that the category model is the fairest one, but there are good arguments either way and each member needs to decide on that for their own. And yeah, I know that mindset is wishful thinking. 😊
Best regards,
Andreas Grabmüller
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