On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 07:07:44AM -0500, Daniel Pearson wrote:
So if RIPE cannot make a profit, then it is impossible for it to set fee's so high that would make any impact and thus limits the whole game to a 21,000,000 million EUR bubble, which is TINY compared to some of the power house IT companies budgets.
Besides, it is *not* the purpose of the NCC to control the resource "market" and use fees, setup or membership, to steer it into whatever direction. This would very quickly lead to accusations of using its market domination (a cool 100% market share inthe service region) to erect barriers to trade. The NCC is the resource registry for its service region and its fees are there to defray the cost of its operation. Any discussion about using it for any other purpose (redistribution or even deterrence of speculation) is fruitless, because it would plainly be *illegal* (at least within the EU, there may be jurisdictions in the SR where this is fine). rgds, Sascha Luck