On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 01:03:22AM +0100, Rob Evans wrote:
Are you sure the tax is only on profits?
Usually, corporation tax is charged on retained profits, but IANAAccountant.
The RIPE NCC allocates Internet number resources to its members as needed ("need" being based on community-derived policy). We pay membership fees to allow this to happen. One of those resources is running low, but isn't it a short-term view to base membership fees on that one resource?
Certainly is. I do wonder what the plan for the inevitable ipv6-only members is? Will membership for those be free? What I do not like about this new charging scheme is, inter alia, that it is apparently intended to be a barrier to new members. Specifically, together with the (IMO completely unjustifiable) "administration fee", a new member will have an upfront cost of ~EUR4000 before the first prefix is allocated. That is not a marginal cost for most start-up companies. rgds, Sascha Luck