[members-discuss] A summary for Proposal for New RIPE NCCCharging Scheme Model

Il 18/07/2012 15:52, Havard Eidnes ha scritto:
>> So, I agree an accounting/seminars fee should be the same for
>> all, but IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, as well as AS, PA, PI should
>> be charged for quantity.
> So how do you reconcile the fact that assignment policies have
> changed over time?  Do you want to challenge assignements done in
> the past, by applying today's standards?  Even within the RIPE
> NCCs lifetime, assignment policies have changed ... and legacy
> address space holders should via the RIPE NCC fee be "financially
> encouraged" (to use a euphemism) to get rid of their by today's
> standard large IPv4 address blocks?  To hell with this "being an
> Internet pioneer" thing!

Oh! Only my contracts change price with time, I see... even ICANN asks 
more money for domains, and electrical power costs more, and bandwith 
changes prices, and salaries change...
Only first RIPE members must have same price than twenty years ago!

Being a pioneer, you had very low prices for twenty years, and you could 
build a market using almost for free public resources.

Now that resources are limited rules must change.

Thanks to Internet pioneers, but you should also thank the community for 
giving them resources at very special conditions until now!

Regards,

Tonino




>
> We have a saying which translates: When the cribbage is empty,
> the horses bite each other...  I would suggest we not mimic the
> horses.
>
> Regards,
>
> - Håvard
>