Hi Randy, I have some sympathy for your point of view, but also see some consecuences of it: On 21/04/2014 15:14, Randy Bush wrote:
i am a legacy holder. i get dns, whois, ... now, for free. i do not wish to be beholden to an LIR. i am quite willing to pay a couple hundred euros/year for a cert. i am not willing to pay 1,800, it's outrageous.
How is this different from a new LIR that only gets a /22? Some of them have even expressed that they think thoose who have large amounts of address space should pay much more. I seem to rememeber from the budget discussion when the one-member-one fee structure was passed that the expenses were roughly in 3 parts - a) registration services - b) supporting open policy fora such as RIPE meetings - c) other services like Atlas, DNSmon... If you - as a legacy holder - should be able to "opt-out" of b and c, why should I (read a new LIR with only a /22 or any other LIR) not be allowed to do the same? I seem to recall, as Tore stated, that this was excactly the discussion we had when the "one member one fee" structure was put in place. -hph