<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/></head><body style="font-family:Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Dear Tomas,<br />
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> I think that when you propose such a radical changes in charging scheme you have to consider<br />
> possible impacts not only on the community but also on the whole IT industry in RIPE NCC service<br />
> region. We all have to step back a bit and think about responsibility we have. Wrong decisions made<br />
> and voted for on RIPE NCC general meeting could waste incredible amount of money, ruin lot of<br />
> businesses and create a huge disadvantage for European IT industry in international competition.<br />
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Why you think that it will be step back? <br />
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Who and why will waste money? Big companies use more IPs and will pay more. This is very logical. They can reduce payments through optimisation infrastructure, moving to IPv6, etc.<br />
Small palyers will pay low. Medium will pay the same money.</div>
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Why you think that it will be huge disadvantage for European IT industry?<br />
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Could you tell not general words, but numbers? <br />
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The same I can say the same words about current charging scheme, while small LIRs pay too much.<br />
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> Please do not try to transform RIPE NCC to a government-like entity equipped with rights to tax and<br />
> regulate our lives.<br />
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The regulation in genereal the same - Dutch law. In case if RIPE will transfrom to Corporate body - it will pay small corporate tax. In general nothing bad will happend. Could you write what do you afraid?</div>
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Alexey Ivanov<br />
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