[members-discuss] Proposal for New RIPE NCC Charging Scheme Model

On 10/07/2012 11:06, Andrea Cocito wrote:
> On Jul 9, 2012, at 3:23 PM, Nigel Titley wrote:
>> ..... The purpose of
>> publishing this proposal now is to encourage RIPE NCC members to look at
>> the proposed new model and to give their feedback.
> Hello,
>
> My feedback is: the proposal raises the cost for small LIR, reduces it the for extra large ones, does not simplify anything and does not promote resource conservation.
>
> The "limited resource" to conserve nowadays is IPv4 address space: make the fee EUR 0.1 per allocated IPv4 address, that would be fair and simple.
>
Andrea, in the previous round of discussions we said why we can't use an 
"n euros per address model".

To re-iterate the argument, if we are seen to be "selling" IP addresses 
by the Dutch tax authorities then we lose our special tax status. This 
will immediately cause a rise in the cost of running the RIPE as we will 
be liable for Dutch corporation tax. Up until now the membership hasn't 
wanted this.

Nigel