On Mar 28, 2014, at 5:58 AM, Sander Steffann <san...@steffann.nl> wrote:
> Hi Owen, > >> I, for one, would not want to start having to pay RIPE-level fees. >> >> ARIN fees are a much better deal than RIPE fees. > > Only up to Small... The RIPE NCC membership fee is €1750 (±$2400 currently) > for everybody. The ARIN fees are between $500 and $32000, with category Small > at $2000 and Medium at $4000. I personally am glad about this (although in > ARIN I would probably be Small) because it doesn't give operators any > financial incentive to stingy when giving their customers IPv6 prefixes. > > If you want to give a million customers a /48 it is not going to cost you > more then giving them a /60. IPv6 resources are not such a scarce resource > compared to IPv4, so differentiating price based on the amount of integers > you need doesn't make much sense in the current world anymore :) > > But: this is all RIPE NCC members/AGM stuff, independent of the RIPE > community and its working groups. (well the RIPE NCC facilitates the RIPE > meetings (note: RIPE meeting, not RIPE NCC meeting) and without the help of > the NCC the RIPE community wouldn't have such well organised meetings. The > NCC only facilitates though, it doesn't control or influence the RIPE working > groups) and the structure of the RIPE working groups was what Randy was > referring to. Compare and contrast the costs of being a PI holding end-user in the RIPE region to those in the ARIN region and the difference becomes much more noticeable. Owen
