On onsdag, dec 4, 2002, at 09:51 Europe/Stockholm, Bovio@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 12/4/02 5:58:30 AM Romance Standard Time, kurtis@kurtis.pp.se writes:
Kurtis,
Ok, so for next year we will see a staff reduction or a "re-prioritistion"?
As I wrote earlier we expect the survey to tell us what the membership at large expects the RIPE-NCC to do. If the members indicate that they are only intrested in core activities some restructuring will be required. I personally doubt that this will be the case and I do not think a staff reduction will be needed.
Ok. Notice that this was actually a question on which way you think it will go. I don't understand how you could get "continuing as today" and "same fees and fee structure" to work together.
I am now playing the devils advocate so don't take this literal - the RIPE NCCs number one focus is to provide adequate registration services. Anything else is pure bonus.
The RIPE-NCC was never meant to be "only" about registration services. At any rate I do not believe the RIPE database can be considered "a bonus" anyway.
I agree with you on the "not only" registration services - but at some point we need to ask us what the NCC should focus on. I can see a number of side activities that will prove useful, but still the most useful services are the registration services, and what do we do if these do not function well? I have a PI address space form that I sent it and that apparently had a problem. That was (I think)I two months ago. Still no reply from the NCC. While registering the new LIR I had a problem with the invoicing and tried to get in contact with RIPE NCCs billing group, I was several times on the phone told that none of them had come to the office at times when I would have expected everyone to be at work since long back. I was told there was a week waiting queue on billing issues. I don't want to point fingers, at least this is not my intention - and there might be very valid reasons for everything. But here lays a part of the problem. It's very hard to have a view of the work done by the NCC without this being indirectly seen as criticism of particular persons of the NCC. But I have agreed with Hans-Petter to try and make a presentation for the next LIR-WG of my experiences and what I think, so I will and try to be quite until then, - kurtis -