Koen, The european ISP community agreed that it is reasonable to charge an administrative fee for the services related to the assignment of IP address space, but that there should be no charge for the addresses as such. Please see the document 'Charging by Local Internet Registries' under the following URL for more details: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-152.html Kind Regards, Mirjam Kuhne RIPE NCC Koen Breugelmans <kbr@mira.net.dhis.org> writes: * Hello, * * I hope this is the right list for my question, otherwise please sent me a * notice. * * I contacted my ISP (=Online in Belgium) for 4 IP addresses. Some months ago * we got one fixed IP, but we need some more now. The 'commercial manager' of * my ISP responded that I have to pay 3000Bfr/year (this is approx. 80$/year) * for one IP. * It already sounded very weird to me that they charged that fee for * non-commercial groups like us, so I wondered if this is * 1) legally * 2) too much * 3) fraud * * I can totally agree if they ask a one-time setup (registration cost) and * perhaps some little annual costs, but this is just too much for us IMHO. * * Another thing I'd like to ask about: Everytime I want to order some new * IP-addresses, my ISP says that they'll also have to change my old fixed IP' * s * into new ones. Is this just a normal procedure, or is this some kind of * backdoor to fraud? How can I check that my ISP registered those IP's under * my name and contact, and not under their's? * * * Best regards, * Koen Breugelmans, sysadmin <kbr@mira.net.dhis.org> * Patrick Weckhuyzen, informaticacoordinator <pweckhuyzen@online.be> * Hilde Van Roey, informaticaverantwoordelijke <hvanroey@online.be> * -- * [-=====================================================-] * | '^' Herr Pirre <kbr@mira.net.dhis.org> | * | (O,0) Feasting on the blood of the insane, | * | ( ) here's another tale of the fucking deranged | * [-=="="================================================-] * public PGP-key at http://www.student.kuleuven.ac.be/~m9920190/koen.asc *