[members-discuss] Discuss Charging Scheme 2010

Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Andrea Cima wrote:
> 
>>> 4) " - Direct assignments will have a recurring charge per assignment
>>> and the
>>> fee will be EUR 50 per direct assignment" - Operates for all direct
>>> assignments? or Only new direct assignments (included after 3 May,
>>> 2009)?
>>
>> All Assignments made since 1992 will be included.
> 
> I have stated it before and I'll state it again - changing the billing
> rules retroactively is wrong.  Maybe even EU legally wrong.  Allocations
> made in the 1990s should not be billed.  By all means recover
> unannounced allocations by whatever means necessary, but charging LIRs
> for allocations made in 1995 is wrong.
> 

It's not charging retroactively. Retroactively charging for the PI space
would be sending invoices out for every year from '92 to to date, which
is not happening.

What is happening that the price has changed from 0 to 50 EUR/year
(well, the draft price).

It's like an update of pricing or the terms and conditions, so you can
consider to either give your allocation back and won't be charged in the
future or you'll pay the price.

This has nothing to do with retroactively charging. It's just a change
of the fee from now and on.

Kind regards,
Martin List-Petersen
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