[Community-Discuss] Resolution 201604.274 about Set-Up fees

Tue Jun 28 16:05:31 UTC 2016

Dear Chairman 

Thank you Mr. Chairman for your response which unfortunately has not addressed the two main issues I raised in my email.

First of all, <<“Review” includes the right to change the fees>> is your meaning of REVIEW not the universally accepted meaning. Kindly, use any dictionary or Google to assess the meaning of REVIEW. The validation, as you are aware, in this community goes through bottom-up approach.

Second, I agree that << AFRINIC requires more revenue, not less >> but the increment should not be done at the shrug of one’s shoulder. The scanty explanation you have given does not answer in anyway my questions. Those questions were asked to check whether the right procedure has been followed to arrive at conclusion acceptable to all and convince the community that they are the right fees to pay. 

Allow me to restate the questions here once again:
What problem are solving?What options have been evaluated?What is the meaning of the membership fees, which increase with my category If i have to pay allocations fees anytime i request additional resources?Shouldn’t the membership fees be turned to a lower maintenance fees at a lower price?Have we done impact analysis?What is the foreseen negative impact on membership and how do we mitigate? (Some may not come for additional allocation as they have to pay allocation fees plus increase in membership fees.. )What is expected impact on revenue and how we plan to use it?
Thank you,

Marcus

To: community-discuss at afrinic.net; members-discuss at afrinic.net
From: sfolayan at skannet.com
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 14:05:41 +0100
Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] Resolution 201604.274 about Set-Up fees

    Dear Members and others in the Community,

1. The Board has always been responsible for setting the fees. “Review” includes the right to change the fees.
2. The problem being addressed is that every allocation or assignment event requires effort from staff, and it is not fair for that effort to sometimes be undertaken free of charge.
3. AFRINIC requires more revenue, not less.
4. If the proposed charging scheme had been in place during 2015, then income from allocation and assignment fees would have been about USD 550k.  Actual income from allocation and assignment fees in 2015 was about USD 350k. Therefore, the clarification that allocation or assignment fees are once per allocation or assignment, not once per member, is expected to raise about USD 200k per year.
5. Since it is being introduced in the middle of 2016, the impact on the 2016 revenue is expected to be an additional USD 100k.

Best Regards ...

Sunday Folayan.
Chair, AFRINIC Board
    On 26/06/2016 12:17, Marcus K. G.
      Adomey wrote:

      Dear Chairman and CEO of AfriNIC,

        The Bylaw states in the article 4.2 that “The fees mentioned in
        Article 4.1 above shall be subject to review from time to time
        by the Board.” The important. Word   which  I am interested in
        is REVIEW. The board is supposed to review, yet the Board has
        unilaterally validated the FEES as it is stated on the website
        http://www.afrinic.net/en/services/rs/membership-fees. 

        The community has not been inform and/or involved in any
        discussion and suddenly a “Resolution 201604.274 about Set-Up
        fees”. This is unreasonable because decisions like this ought to
        be more inclusive   Is AfriNIC  moving away from bottom-up
        approach to a more  top-down?

        This raises some questions

          What problem are solving? 
          What options have been evaluated?
          What is the meaning of the membership fees, which increase
            with my category If i have to pay allocations fees anytime i
            request additional resources?
          Shouldn’t the membership fees be turned to a lower
            maintenance fees at a lower price?
          Have we done impact analysis? 

          What is the foreseen negative impact on membership and how
            do we mitigate? (Some may not come for additional allocation
            as they have to pay allocation fees plus increase in
            membership fees.. )
          What is expected  impact on revenue and how we plan to use
            it?

        Thank you,

        Marcus

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