[rmoriz]

This is not sustainable IMHO. RIPE fees are:

€75 per assignment / sponsored resource €50 per ASN assignment

So in your case it's only €50 for the AS-object but your LIR needs to allocate their LIR base fee costs (which includes the IPv6 PA that they assigned to you), also infrastructure, the VM, support.

I really like the couple of LIRs that are very active in supporting one-person-multihoming setups, but IMHO RIPE should directly do that at a low entry fee. RIPE has also education/training offerings for LIRs and that would increase the knowhow and reach of RIPE. Most home lab enthusiasts will apply the gained knowledge in their job, at customers and bring new customers to RIPE.

[icedchai]

You're not wrong about the sustainability, but we don't know if it's their only business. I'm not sure how many BGP / multihome hobbyists there are out there, but I'm guessing it's not a huge number. My guess is the LIR stuff is an add on for their colocation and hosting services.

When I first made the ARIN or RIPE LIR decision a few years back, ARIN required a $500 registration fee for an ASN. That was a few years of LIR fees right there. I felt it was worth the risk for the savings with a hobbyist setup.