Hi Gert On Fri, 2019-02-08 at 16:34 +0100, Gert Doering wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 04:28:42PM +0100, Corin Langosch wrote: > > further why this should be a problem? Usage based billing is very > > much > > "usage based" is "you pay for the amount of work and other costs you > create at the NCC", which is about what we have now. > What's the difference between receiving an allocation from RIPE (= renting IPs from RIPE) and getting an allocation of storage space from some provider (= renting storage space)?
> What you are describing is "sale of goods" - and that is a problem > because it would make the addresses the NCC has in stock a taxable > asset. 10.2 of ripe-673 states that allocations are not granting any ownership, thus RIPE is not selling anything but only granting usage. Just like a hosting provider can lend storage space. Imo IPs are already a taxable asset (as are the disks of the hosting provider) just because of the IP market created by RIPE. So closing the IP market and replacing it with a financial model which more or less forces companies to return unused (or otherwise wasted) IPs would be the way to go. Corin
