Just to clarify so there's no misinformation. This thread's not about taking anybody's IPv4 allocations and redistributing it. It's about large resource holders paying their fair annual maintenance share.
One of the LIRs I represent has only ONE /24 or 256 IPs that they purchased, they pay 1850 EUR a year to ripe which is a substantial amount in a country like Lebanon.
While LIRs that have hundrends or even thousands of /24s pay the same 1850 EUR amount while if they closed their businesses and rent their IPS out, they would make hundreds of thousands of Euros anually.

On Fri, 30 May 2025, 20:11 Jean Salim, <jean@bsmart-isp.net> wrote:
You are intentionally misleading this discussion, please open a new thread about IPv6 transition and discuss this subject with whom you want to.
This thread's title is clearly about the charging scheme, not about IPv4 distribution nor about IPv6 transition.

On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM Gert Doering <gert@space.net> wrote:
Hi,

On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 07:58:00PM +0300, Jean Salim wrote:
> Each time there's a discussion about resource holders paying their fair
> share according to their resource holdings at RIPE, like other RIR, you
> take the discussion towards an unrelated subject that is IPv6 transition.

This is the only relevant discussion.  There is not enough IPv4 available
to fulfill all the demands people have - very simple math.

So whatever we do will just result in more squabbling and complaints from
other people that "THIS IS ALL SO UNFAIR" - yes, this is why we made IPv6
policies where every but the most large LIRs can have more address space
than they will ever need, by asking politely.

Guess what, we knew 15+ years ago that IPv4 would not last, and made
policies where networks voluntarily(!) restricted themselves(!) so late
comers could still have some space, to help with the transition.  That
space is now gone, transition has not been done, and - surprise - we see
complaints that IPv4 is not distributed fairly.

Gert Doering
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