On Tue, 3 May 2011, Richard Hartmann wrote:
Maybe more people would agree with you if you wouldn't use ridiculously inflated numbers, both for the projected PI prefixes and your desired price of € 2000 / year * PI prefix. Or tried to write your emails in a slightly less heated manner.
I am not stupid, I of course know RIPE is never going to charge 2kEUR per year for PI even if I want them to. Also, I am going to save this email and bring it out in 5 years and let's see how many 50EUR/year PIs there are in the world then. I guess that's the only way to find out. I am not heated, I am resigned about nobody here caring about the common good. Seems shared cost is "someone elses problem". As long as "my hobby project" is important to me, I should get to pollute without paying. And at 50EUR per year, heck, I'd PI my home connection in a blink. Why wouldn't anyone? -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se