Hi, The Address Policy WG cannot set policies that govern the charging scheme. That is something controlled by the RIPE NCC's membership.
If you represent a RIPE NCC member, you're welcome to make proposals related to the charging scheme on the Membership Discuss mailing list: https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/membership-mailing-lists/subscribing-to-members-discuss Kind regards, Leo Vegoda, for the Address Policy WG co-chairs On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 1:24 AM Diederik de Zee <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear members, > > I agree with the post of R. Bakker @ Dec 8 00:49:28 CET 2021 under this > mailing list. > > New members should not be pushed as hard as, say, a large company with > multiple huge ranges with a lot of unused IPv4 space. Incentives should be > placed on the use of much IPv4, the perfect way to regulate this is to ask a > monthly or yearly fee per allocated IPv4 address. > > as a example, average large DC or hosting company seems to currently hold 20 > to 50% of its IPv4 space unused and keeps reserving ipv4. You will retrieve a > lot of ranges if all out of a sudden it costs them thousands of euro’s each > period, because that is a huge write off for them and something they can > generally not afford. > > That change would cause a lot of IPv4 to be free’d up, and make more room for > startups and other business that actually have good reasoning for using that > ipv4 space. > > Kind regards, > Diederik de Zee > -- > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, get a password reminder, or change > your subscription options, please visit: > https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/address-policy-wg -- To unsubscribe from this mailing list, get a password reminder, or change your subscription options, please visit: https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/address-policy-wg
