[members-discuss] Input from Membership on RIPE NCC Charging Scheme Model

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
>
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