[members-discuss] Proposal for New RIPE NCC Charging Scheme Model
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Sascha Luck
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Sat Jul 14 16:43:37 CEST 2012
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
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