On Wednesday 03 May 2023 18:56:37 Brian Turnbow via members-discuss wrote:

What makes the pay per category model "A" as proposed impossible for me to vote for is it penalizes all long standing lirs. When I started working with Ripe you signed up completed the forms and a /19 was allocated, more if you could demonstrate need but /19 was default. You then requested an AS. Run out came along and you could get a last /22 together with your v6 allocation. So that adds up to a /19, /22, AS and /32(or /29) That should be the bare minimum for small as it is what any long standing lir has with Ripe, yet they would now find themselves in category 6 at the high end of the scale. It does not mean they have more revenues than a lir started in say 2018 with much less IP resources, just that they started first. Note that I am not talking about the company I work for, we have more resources than those stated above, but I know several companies that fit into the category.

I second that. The RIPE partecipation for my company, resource wise, is the default allocation that was given to me at the time of registration and the subsequent allocation exactly as described above. The work I, as a company, generate for RIPE is minimal but the model A substantially increase the annual fee. I think I, as the others in the same ballpark, should be treated as SMALL (= we had only the default allocations, no more than that), and there must be a lower category only for who is registered but has no v4 allocation (= is in wait list). THe model A proposed by RIPE instead is elevating the yesterday's SMALL to a much higher category in a manner non compatible with the SMALL partecipants business models. the 2022 fee for me was about 1% of my gross income. elevating that is profundly unjust when the fee for the large enterprises is a 0.00_1% of their gross income. (feel free to add zeros in the place of the '_'). Best Regards, Andrea Borghi --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrea Borghi - W KEY srl - http://www.wkey.it Tel. +39 0648919230 e +39 0648919231 Fax. +39 064871550 - Mobile: +39 3477135822 sede legale: Via Alfredo Catalani 30 - 00199 Roma - P.IVA e CF 08426171008 Best Regards, Andrea Borghi --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrea Borghi - W KEY srl - http://www.wkey.it Tel. +39 0648919230 e +39 0648919231 Fax. +39 064871550 - Mobile: +39 3477135822 sede legale: Via Alfredo Catalani 30 - 00199 Roma - P.IVA e CF 08426171008