On Jul 31, 2007, at 5:16 PM, Peter Sherbin wrote:
The current business model does not bring in enough cash. How do
we bring in more in a way that furthers ietf goals?
E.g. other standards setting bodies have paid memberships and/or
sellable standards.
IETF unique way could be to charge a fee for an address allocation
to RIRs. On their side RIRs would charge for assignments as they do
now and return a fair share back to IANA/IETF.
A IP address use fee might help solve two problems. When based upon
relative scarcities, IPv4 space should demand a higher premium.
Even .5 cents per IPv4 address could generate perhaps 10 million per
year. This fee might help free up some unused IP address space,
where some of these funds could be allocated to the various
"Internet" supporting services. Meeting fees could then reflect just
the cost of the meeting itself. This might be analogous to licensing
radio frequencies.
If IETF start charging for reading contributors' papers how much
voluntary contribution such arrangement would generate?
Charging to publish would interfere with information tracking. One
of the attractive features of the IETF has been a free information
exchange where a document's status is directly declared. Charge a
fee may devolve into searching various independent websites where
documents would have an unknown status with respect to the IETF.
Much of the authority conveyed is in the assigning of status.
Is there a guarantee that a pre-paid content remains worth reading?
This sounds like a question an ad agency might ask. Would pre-paid
content permit uploading videos? : )
-Doug
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