Dear RIPE NCC members, At the General Meeting on 26 September 2012, the RIPE NCC membership voted to approve the RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2013. Accordingly, Direct Assignment Users and non-RIPE NCC members that used NRTM and DNSMON services in 2012 were asked to become RIPE NCC members. The implementation of this process is now complete. All customers who did not terminate their service have either completed the process of becoming a RIPE NCC member or are in the process of doing so. Of 195 Direct Assignment Users, 166 decided to become RIPE NCC members. The other 29 decided to terminate their agreement. Of nine non-member NRTM users, one decided to become a RIPE NCC member and the rest decided to terminate the service. All seven non-member DNSMON users decided to become RIPE NCC members. The RIPE Document "Closure of Member and Deregistration of Internet Number Resources" has been updated to reflect the fact that there are no longer Direct Assignment Users. This document is available at: <https://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-578/> --------------------------------- RIPE Database Proxy Service --------------------------------- The RIPE NCC also requested that users of the RIPE Database Proxy Service should become RIPE NCC members. Following discussion on this issue on various mailing lists, it was decided that the proxy service will retain its 2012 status as a free service available to non-RIPE NCC members until further membership and community discussions have taken place. Further details on the status of the proxy service are available at: <http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-services-wg/2013-January/001960.html> ---------------------- Invoices for 2013 ---------------------- On 10 January, the RIPE NCC will send its members their invoice for the 2013 service fees. Best regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC