Hi, On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 09:57:14PM +0200, Andreas Schmieja wrote:
The fee is intended to cover the costs for the expenses of the services used more or less individual by the NCC members and additional activities of the RIPE NCC.
IMHO it should not be misused as tax. (The german word for Tax is "Steuern", which means: to control/direct/regulate ).
The NCC is tasked by the members to keep track on "which ASN is where?" and "can unused ASes be returned?". This has a serious impact on employee costs in the RS department. Introducing a small yearly annoyance (= per-piece fee) creates an automatic incentive to return unused ASNs "just to get rid of this yearly invoice" at the end users, while at the same time reducing NCC RS workload, thus, member fees. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard, Ingo Lalla, Karin Schuler Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279