On 10/07/2012 11:06, Andrea Cocito wrote:
On Jul 9, 2012, at 3:23 PM, Nigel Titley wrote:
..... The purpose of publishing this proposal now is to encourage RIPE NCC members to look at the proposed new model and to give their feedback. Hello,
My feedback is: the proposal raises the cost for small LIR, reduces it the for extra large ones, does not simplify anything and does not promote resource conservation.
The "limited resource" to conserve nowadays is IPv4 address space: make the fee EUR 0.1 per allocated IPv4 address, that would be fair and simple.
Andrea, in the previous round of discussions we said why we can't use an "n euros per address model". To re-iterate the argument, if we are seen to be "selling" IP addresses by the Dutch tax authorities then we lose our special tax status. This will immediately cause a rise in the cost of running the RIPE as we will be liable for Dutch corporation tax. Up until now the membership hasn't wanted this. Nigel