Re: Royalty Based Fees

[Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>]

On Thu, 26 Dec 1996, Leo Smith wrote:

> To Kent Crispin, et al:
> Why not use  royalty based revenue to generate the funding needed to
> support IAHC. If a registry has to pay a nickle royalty ONLY when it makes
> a dollar, the royalty payment will never act as a barrier to entry.
> 
> If the $20,000 fee were instead treated as an advance on royalties to cover
> the first $400,000 in sales generated by your registry, how would you view
> that?

It was my view that the IAHC or whoever manages this should not revisit
and  check how much each company made from this venture each year.
Perhaps some company will do it for free?  The administrative headache of
yearly auditing companies and collecting a "tax" (yes, that would be a tax
if we did it your way) is something I am not in favor of.

Hank Nussbacher
IAHC member
[the views expressed above belong to the author and do not
necessarily reflect the views of the other IAHC members]