Hi Gert On Fri, 2019-02-08 at 16:34 +0100, Gert Doering wrote:
On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 04:28:42PM +0100, Corin Langosch wrote:
further why this should be a problem? Usage based billing is very much
"usage based" is "you pay for the amount of work and other costs you create at the NCC", which is about what we have now.
What's the difference between receiving an allocation from RIPE (= renting IPs from RIPE) and getting an allocation of storage space from some provider (= renting storage space)?
What you are describing is "sale of goods" - and that is a problem because it would make the addresses the NCC has in stock a taxable asset.
10.2 of ripe-673 states that allocations are not granting any ownership, thus RIPE is not selling anything but only granting usage. Just like a hosting provider can lend storage space. Imo IPs are already a taxable asset (as are the disks of the hosting provider) just because of the IP market created by RIPE. So closing the IP market and replacing it with a financial model which more or less forces companies to return unused (or otherwise wasted) IPs would be the way to go. Corin