18 Sep
2014
18 Sep
'14
1:24 p.m.
On 18.09.14 12:57 , Hans Petter Holen wrote:
RIPE had its first meeting in May 1989 and according to RIPE 164 the RIPE NCC was a project of TERENA from 1. april 1992.
I would not quite put it like that! It was rather that RARE (predecessor of TERENA) agreed to be the formal host of a project defined and governed by RIPE and above all funded by the ISPs at the time. Most of these ISPs were in fact members of RARE, but not all of them. ISPs provided specific funding for the operation of the RIPE NCC. Otherwise it would have been called RARE NCC, an organisation that I would not have considered working for. Just read the name out loud. :-) Daniel