I do not really believe that the purpose of this discussion has ever been garbage collection.

I thought it was, at least some people said it was, and nobody said the NCC needs to tax something to raise more money how about ASNs.

That makes it 27128 assigned ASNs. If each would have a (very low) 50E fee, that would bring ~1.35M Eur additional budget to the RIPE NCC which could be spent on outreach or could be used to lower member fees.

Has the NCC said it needs more money (it could raise the existing fee if it did) If the total stays the same it's just reverting to an older charging scheme. I don't see the value in doing that.

I think that is the discussion we are having and I believe this has always been the reasoning for the presentation at the GM and the noise on the mailing list.

Then I totally missed it. The NCC really needs loads more money?

I also think we should forget about garbage collection in ASN16 because it will never happen.

That was my point brandon