On Fri, 26 Jan 1996 11:17:43 +0000 (GMT) you said:
I cannot accept that we have to >beg< RIPE like a good little provider for address space that should be allocated to us from the USA anyway. I will be interested to see how the RIPE actually works (and not just listening to Daniel dictate policy by e-mail) when I go to my first RIPE meeting next week. So far it seems like a bureaucracy that is entirely self perpetuating and self interested without consider what the people who pay for its very existance want. sigh. Just like an unelected government in fact.
ILAN pays RIPE and I do think that RIPE listens. If you compare RIPE to Internic, I think they are way ahead in the way of user representation. Your comments are more appropriate for Internic, IMHO. I have followed RIPE's development for the past 5 years and I will honestly say that I am glad that RIPE is what it is and that we are not in the sphere of Internic.
Peter Galbavy peter@demon.net
Hank Nussbacher