Hello everyone,
The activity plan is almost useless as soon as it doesn't include any
expenses. The biggest part of the so called "plan" is a copy from
previous years' plans and there is no mention why the budget for
executing the plan should be raised and for what needs particularly. The
community is asking for the information for many years and many years
the "plan" exists in the pristine clear from expenses form.
Regards,
Potapov Vladislav
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[mailto:members-discuss-bounces@ripe.net] On Behalf Of Nigel Titley
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 11:30 PM
To: members-discuss(a)ripe.net
Subject: Re: [members-discuss] budget 2012
On 11/10/2011 10:18, Geert Hauwaerts wrote:
I strongly agree with the motions raised about maintaining a responsible
budget; and perhaps in light of recent developments, we should take a
moment and evaluate some of the projects the RIPE NCC has taken on
itself.
This is why we circulate the activity plan well in advance of setting
the budget and the charging scheme. We typically get no response to the
activity plan at all.
I do take on board Kurtis' comments about making the activity plan more
transparent with regards to costs of individual activities and we will
ask the RIPE NCC to make this clearer.
Additionally, and without any disrespect, if any of the Board Members
feel they do not have adequate time to fulfill their duties; they might
wish to vacate their seat in favor of somebody who does.
RIPE NCC board/RIPE WG activities take up roughly 2 days per *week* of
my time. I'm lucky to have an employer that is happy with this. However,
as I made clear, this discussion blew up at the time of the month when I
happen to have to spend a couple of days full time on the day job.
Apologies for this.
Nigel
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As far as those not contributing in the list "not care" or "agreed with
everything" it is unwise to predict "what the membership as a whole
wants". All the more nobody can act as God to be able to say: "I know
what everybody thinks and what everybody wants".
I appreciate the answers of RIPE NCC, but "I am happy to monitor", "Rest
assured", "the board is very well paying attention" are not answers the
members of the list are waiting for and doesn't bring any clear vision
on the process of determination of what changes we should welcomed at
GM. The questions at the RIPE meeting will be late and not productive at
all.
Looking at the expenses in the proposed budget I can see the increase in
all parts. I do not agree with the situation. Some time ago in 1998 I
was in London attending the RIPE courses. It was 5* hotel and one of the
natives said with some sadness, "We all do not live like that!" Maybe
we'll look into decreasing the pomp for all our rather technical
meetings/courses/hotels...? I'll look also into decreasing the stuff: as
soon as it's said they are the best in the industry they can do more
than average middle-salaried worker.
Regards,
Vladislav Potapov
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: members-discuss-bounces(a)ripe.net [mailto:members-discuss-
> bounces(a)ripe.net] On Behalf Of Christian Kaufmann
> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 2:54 AM
> To: Nigel Titley
> Cc: members-discuss(a)ripe.net
> Subject: Re: [members-discuss] budget 2012
>
> ...as Nigel and Fahad said, the board is very well paying attention to
> the list and what the members want.
> And for the ones who don't want to send an email to the list, feel
free
> to send a direct email to us or even better feel free to talk to us in
> person at the next RIPE meeting.:-)
>
> Best regards,
>
> ck
>
>
>
>
> On Oct 11, 2011, at 12:01 AM, Nigel Titley wrote:
>
> > On 10/10/2011 22:50, Fahad AlShirawi wrote:
> >> And on my side I am happy to monitor the members' discussion and
see
> what it is the members want and then to bring it up internally. Rest
> assured Hank that we will consider all concerns where applicable and
as
> much as possible within the constraints we have.
> > Yes, thanks for making this clear, Fahad.
> >
> > As far as I am aware, all members of the board read this list and
> take
> > notice of what the members want. Our sometimes difficult job is to
> try
> > and sort out what the membership as a whole wants, rather than just
> the
> > dozen or so active contributors to the list.
> >
> > Always feel free to send any of us a direct personal question or
> > comment, especially if there is a period of quiet. As I've mentioned
> > before, we all have day jobs which sometimes intrude on our board
> work.
> >
> > Nigel
> >
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Why is electronic voting made so complicated? Why can't it be a part
of LIR portal? In who's interest lies reduction of votes given?
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Yes, it is voted for, but what was the words preceding the vote? In the
slides there were many "proves" that the current scheme is a catastrophe
(which was a complete lie, because the current scheme didn't use the
right factors in the presentation intentionally - after the presentation
we discussed the matter and many RIPE NCC members agreed that) and if we
didn't vote for new scheme the world would die completely. :) I know
also that there was big lobby in the GM. As soon as there was voting -
nothing could be done against it, but many people know - the intention
of the decision was bad!
Regards,
Vladislav Potapov
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gert Doering [mailto:gert@space.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 6:38 PM
> To: Potapov Vladislav
> Cc: gert(a)space.net; bangert(a)parknet.dk; members-discuss(a)ripe.net
> Subject: Re: [members-discuss] budget 2012
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 06:32:00PM +0400, poty(a)iiat.ru wrote:
> > It IS true. Several people can prove that. The answer of the RIPE
NCC
> > was - it is already late to change something. The presentation was
> > forged - and personally you knew that.
>
> I was there, and the change of the charging scheme was discussed for
> *three* consecutive meetings, and it was voted for, and received the
> majority of votes.
>
> The change to per-piece billing for PI and AS is came with the
adoption
> of 2007-01 and had nothing to do whatsoever with increasing the budget
> (which it didn't, the LIR categories and fees were adjusted to make
> this neutral in regards to the overall budget).
>
> Of course there are people that do not like any change that will
> directly affect their business model (getting lots of PI for free and
> selling for
> money) - and this is why the change was announced well in advance, and
> voted for(!).
>
> Gert Doering
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Dear Richard,
You can look at the presentation by himself. It IS a fact of lie! The "current scheme" was not adopted for rising expenses while the other schemes - was. If you CAN read right - I'm not accusing Gert in the decision (it was not his decision anyway)- just in wrong position in the presenting of the possibilities.
Regards,
Vladislav Potapov
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Hartmann [mailto:richih.mailinglist@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 6:54 PM
> To: Potapov Vladislav
> Cc: gert(a)space.net; bangert(a)parknet.dk; members-discuss(a)ripe.net
> Subject: Re: [members-discuss] budget 2012
>
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 16:32, <poty(a)iiat.ru> wrote:
>
> > It IS true. Several people can prove that. The answer of the RIPE NCC
> > was - it is already late to change something. The presentation was
> > forged - and personally you knew that.
>
> While Gert did a good job of dismantling your factual points, I would
> like to add a more personal/netiquette note.
>
> If you feel that you absolutely _have_ to accuse someone not only of
> lying but of deliberate manipulation, please have some specific,
> verifiable facts at the ready to back up your claim. In this specific
> case, I highly doubt you have any.
>
> 2007-01 has been discussed at length prior to its voting. Coming late
> to the game is not an excuse to pretend your voice was ignored on
> purpose.
>
>
> Richard
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It IS true. Several people can prove that. The answer of the RIPE NCC
was - it is already late to change something. The presentation was
forged - and personally you knew that.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gert Doering [mailto:gert@space.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 6:29 PM
> To: Potapov Vladislav
> Cc: bangert(a)parknet.dk; members-discuss(a)ripe.net
> Subject: Re: [members-discuss] budget 2012
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 06:24:22PM +0400, poty(a)iiat.ru wrote:
> > I was at the GM where the fee for independent resources was
> introduced.
> > Nobody answered plain questions asked by me about why the charging
> > scheme should be changed
>
> Not true.
>
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> From: members-discuss-bounces(a)ripe.net [mailto:members-discuss-
> bounces(a)ripe.net] On Behalf Of Thilo Bangert
> it's great to see people caring about issues at RIPE. IMHO it's not so
great
> that some seem to derail the discussion on the membership fees.
>
> RIPE is growing and therefore they need more money. do the math - and
listen
> to what other people on this list say: while the budget is increasing
the
> individual membership fee is not (as much), since there're many more
> members to shoulder the burden.
Let's see what does it means for my company as small member in 2011: The
budget should be increased by 100% * (19317-17891)/17891 ~ 8%. My
membership fee should be increased (like 27% of other former small
members according the charging scheme) from 1800 (+150 for my
ASN+(ASN+PI)for a client) to 3000 (+150 for the same things).
100%*(3150-1950)/1950 ~61.5%. Can you prove your words about "the
individual membership fee is not (as much) [increased]"?
> also the increased budget is necessary to fund the
> actions decided upon by the community.
Maybe it's better to vote which actions should stay next year than just
fiddling about immortal RIPE activity "decided by the community"?
>
> How many of those objecting the current budget have been involved in
shaping
> these actions? Given that the only suggestions seem to be cutting
meetings and
> trainings i get at strong impression that there has not been any
involvement
> at all...
Wrong assumption (at least according to me). I don't like to have the
conversations become personal. But could you explain - why the priceless
RIPE staff can live only in 5* hotels while they are out of RIPE NCC
office (for meetings, trainings, business)? Or why for a group of 12
people the training courses is planned in the 5* room facility? Nobody
asked for full stop of meetings and trainings, just increasing the
expenses seems chic at some time.
And if you really read all messages here you should know, that there are
many suggestions, not only optimizing trainings and meetings.
I was at the GM where the fee for independent resources was introduced.
Nobody answered plain questions asked by me about why the charging
scheme should be changed (all had agreed that we could live with old one
and have enough budget), why ASN selling is not "per resource" scheme
(really the main argument of RIPE NCC against "flat fee" now) and so on.
Empty meaning words as answers - the words we see here in the discussion
again.
> run-out-fairly requires extra work - but its most definitively the
small LIRs
> that profit from it and that is a good thing.
Several people asked for EXACT COUNTINGS. As soon as you suggested doing
math - give us problem situation!
> the increased service level with the much improved database tools etc.
The same as above - what is exact expenses and what for the increasing
expenses will go? What are going to be "new level of service" in
numbers?
> are much welcome investments well worth their money.
By whom?
> and no - this is no blank check for RIPE either. i still felt well
> represented as "the quiet majority" by the RIPE EB.
You are going to feel trouble when at the next GM (maybe not the exactly
next, but nearest) the quiet majority will be unable to outcount the
active dissenting. I'm going to be at the incoming GM and will ask very
uneasy questions.
Regards,
Vladislav Potapov
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11.10.2011 17:02 пользователь "James Blessing" <jblessing(a)llnw.com> написал:
>
> On 11/10/2011 13:51, Artem Buglak wrote:
> >I haven't had a chance to catch routing registry training in
> > Russia for last 3 years (on my memory neither Moscow nor St.Petersburg
> > hosted those courses since 2008), not to mention how difficult it may be
> > to attend any training courses for LIRs in far eastern parts of Russia.
>
> Good thing there is one later this year then...
>
> https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses
>
> J
Hmph... I've checked before sending =)
no RR training for Moscow - just LIR and IPv6 for LIR
>
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Hello!
Recently RIPE NCC started to allocate addresses from 128/8 to end users,
example:
https://apps.db.ripe.net/whois/lookup/ripe/inetnum/128.0.0.0-128.0.7.255.ht…
JunOS software (upto and including 11.1 version) blocks those addresses
by default as martians:
> show route martians
inet.0:
0.0.0.0/0 exact -- allowed
0.0.0.0/8 orlonger -- disallowed
127.0.0.0/8 orlonger -- disallowed
128.0.0.0/16 orlonger -- disallowed
In fact there will be no connectivity for newly allocates addresses and
Juniper routers all around the world unless people change default
behavior or juniper changes default settings for martians.
We've opened JTAC case about it.
P.S.
In order to fix it you should implement
set routing-options martians 128.0.0.0/16 orlonger allow
on your juniper routers.
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Dear all,
Thank you all for your valuable feedback and your patience.
Please find below some more information and clarification
on some of the issues being raised on this mailing list.
- Charging scheme
The proposed charging scheme for 2012 was drafted after discussion with
the membership, as Nigel said earlier.
We avoided making any radical changes to the charging scheme as the
current tax ruling is favourable. The tax ruling will have to be
reviewed if any major change is made. Changing the charging scheme in
the way that many of you are suggesting (sliding scale or fees per
allocation)
will almost certainly lead to the RIPE NCC incurring a corporate tax
liability of
25.5% on any surplus and, in the worst case, on the organisation's reserves.
- Using IPv4 as an indicator of involvement in Internet operations
As we were thinking about fairness in the Charging Scheme, it was clear
that a simple scheme in which each member pays the same amount would
not be meeting the fairness target, as members of large corporate
size are likely to benefit from RIPE NCC services more than the small
local ISP - the more and deeply a member is involved in the operations
of the
Internet, the more it is likely to benefit from our services.
In looking for a yardstick to measure "Involvement in the oparations of
the Internet", we proposed that IPv4 serve as the basis because it is a
known
factor. This is fully independent of the impending IPv4 runout, or its
technical
relevance. See also my mail from August at:
http://www.ripe.net/maillists/ncc-archives/members-discuss/2011/msg00174.ht…
- The RIPE NCC budget
There have been many opinions expressed about the RIPE NCC's budget and
I'd like to add some facts and reasoning to the discussion:
The RIPE NCC's budget has varied over the years, decreasing after 2002
for a couple of years and then increasing again since then.
The receent increase is due to a continually strong membership growth,
an increase in outreach activities across our service region and defending
the bottom-up, industry self regulation in response to newly interested
stakeholders.
Looking at the last 10 years, the average cost per member decreased by
more than 7 % from 2001. Measuring against 2005, it has increased again by
just over 3 %.
- Webinars vs face-to-face training
Face to face trainings are extremely valuable for us; we need to engage
with you to gather important feedback and to disseminate information.
Trainings are also very popular with members, as has been indicated in
our membership surveys. Online training also has been offered on our
E-learning centre for several years:
http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/training/e-learning
- Meeting costs
There is no large financial benefit from holding meetings in the same
city. Spreading meetings across the region is important as some of the
community are unable to travel easily and value the occasional closer
RIPE meeting.
- Budget and personnel costs
A large part of the RIPE NCC's budget has always been personnel costs -
there's no change there. Even thought we are a not-for-profit
organisation, we still need to compete with commercial organisations to
ensure that we have competent and experienced staff. We can only do this
by offering comparable salary and benefit packages.
Over the last couple of years, we've implemented some organisational
changes in order to streamline our activities and have focused on
attracting high calibre staff to serve our members and the community and
to promote and defend our interests in regional and global arenas.
- RIR activities
The RIPE NCC has its roots in the technical coordination and operation
of the Internet. The task of Internet number resource distribution was
added later. In addition, we perform many more activities for the RIPE
community and for the general well-being of the Internet, including
operating the K-root server, operation and maintenance of the RIPE
Database and performing Internet measurements. All our activities are
outlined in the RIPE NCC Activity Plan:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-506
We strive to gather input and feedback from our members and the RIPE
community by regularly surveying the membership and various stakeholder
groups. We also use feedback gathered from face-to-face contact during
training courses and meetings and your opinions and suggestions are
reflected in the activity plan. It is a challenge to strike a balance
between continuity of operations and reacting to what our numerous
stakeholder groups expect of us and from us - but we are continually
listening to what you need.
I'm sure you understand that we cannot implement every idea that you
bring forward; however I do believe that both RIPE NCC staff as well as
the Executive Board have worked particularly hard this year to gather
your opinions and ideas, to examine the risks, and to bring forward
a Charging Scheme that combines known elements with a set of changes
aiming to marry fairness to simplicity.
We all look forward very much to see many of you personally at
the Vienna RIPE meeting, and also are very excited to see that
the ability to use electronic voting on all resolutions in the General
Meeting has minimised the threshold for participation.
kind regards,
Axel Pawlik
Managing Director
RIPE NCC
