[members-discuss] Input from Membership on RIPE NCC Charging Scheme Model
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Daniel Pearson
daniel at privatesystems.net
Fri Sep 16 14:44:07 CEST 2016
That is a very good point. Once it begins for-profit operations such as buying back IP space then competition is required by law. Didn't think about it that way as well, thanks for the input! On 09/16/2016 07:39 AM, Sascha Luck [ml] wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 07:07:44AM -0500, Daniel Pearson wrote: >> So if RIPE cannot make a profit, then it is impossible for it to >> set fee's so high that would make any impact and thus limits the >> whole game to a 21,000,000 million EUR bubble, which is TINY >> compared to some of the power house IT companies budgets. > > Besides, it is *not* the purpose of the NCC to control the > resource "market" and use fees, setup or membership, to steer it > into whatever direction. This would very quickly lead to > accusations of using its market domination (a cool 100% market > share inthe service region) to erect barriers to trade. The NCC is the > resource registry for its service region and > its fees are there to defray the cost of its operation. > Any discussion about using it for any other purpose (redistribution > or even deterrence of speculation) is fruitless, because it would > plainly be *illegal* (at least within the EU, there may be > jurisdictions in the SR where this is fine). > > > rgds, > Sascha Luck > > ---- > If you don't want to receive emails from the RIPE NCC members-discuss > mailing list, please log in to your LIR Portal account and go to the > general page: > https://lirportal.ripe.net/general/ > > Click on "Edit my LIR details", under "Subscribed Mailing Lists". From > here, you can add or remove addresses.
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