* Mikael Abrahamsson:
I don't want the money, I just want there to be *substantial cost* to take up a DFZ slot.
And degrade overall routing quality because networks cannot afford announcing shorter paths? I don't think this is a good idea.
Preferrably it should be paid per slot as well, so people de-aggregating their blocks have to pay more, but I don't know any way to do that.
Currently, the policy documents spell out clearly that a prefix assignment is not a guarantuee that the prefix will show up in the DFZ. Neither the RIPE community nor the RIPE NCC control the DFZ, so I'm not sure how to change this, and getting some control seems to be a necessary first step before charging for DFZ slots (that is, make sure that you can actually deliver the product you're trying to sell). -- Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99