Hi, On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 04:10:12PM -0500, Lars-Johan Liman wrote:
And moving the marker to or from the end of the scale is not a policy decision.
There I differ (and obviously the board does so, too). Having a yearly recurring price on resources, namely independent resources that are covered by policy proposal 2007-01, is an instrument that affects "garbage collection" of unused resources ("if I do not need this AS number anymore, why should I bother to pay something for it every year?" - it does not particularily matter if this is 5 EUR or 100 EUR, it is "I have to bother"). "Zero" is not "the same as an arbitrary small number". The address policy working group achieved consensus on this, and the board and AGM implemented the charging scheme accordingly, with a per-unit price on PI assignments and AS numbers. Then the charging scheme was changed to waive the price on AS numbers, without a mandate from the community. I am aware that the AGM can just do so (as the community has no formal mandate on charging and AGM decisions), but *now* coming up with "we don't want to change it *back* because it would be making policy" has a funny smell... Gert Doering -- speaking as a paying member and as a part of the community -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279