On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de> wrote:

* Turchanyi Geza:

> The potential cost of applying more staff at the RIRs like RIPE NCC is just
> one issue. The more important issue is that all the line cards of the core
> routers should be replaced if we can not limit the grows of the forwarding
> tables (FIB)s. AND IPv4 address space trading allready might create problems
> concerning the grows.

The RIPE NCC is not an Internet service provider, so this aspect is not
relevant to RIPE NCC operations, and it does not justify interference
from the board.

When I started to work for the Internet development in 1991 it was a slogan what caught me:

Think globally, act locally!

Whatever hat I would wear I would like to see a little bit longer and wider than the hat would suggest.

Best,
Géza