Hi,
am 10.04.24 um 11:18 schrieb Simon-Jan Haytink:
The RIPE NCC Executive Board approves the submission of the RIPE
NCC Charging Scheme 2025 options to the upcoming RIPE NCC General
Meeting for members to vote on.
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Option A - Charging Scheme as is with 22.58% price increase
[…]
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Option B - Charging Scheme as is with 20.97% price increase
[…]
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Option C - Charging Scheme as is with 16.13% price increase
[…]
[…]
All three proposed models are designed to arrive at the same
income of EUR 41.1 million for the RIPE NCC in 2025. This will
cover all current services and activities, […]
Unlike 2023, when there was an "Option D - No Change" – keeping the
Bugdet at EUR 38 million –, there no such option this time: Why?
Coming from a EUR 38 million budget for 2024, reaching EUR 41.1
million would mean an increase of about 8.16%. Already in 2023 there
was a call from members to revisit, actually: reduce appropriately,
the spendings — when did I miss the voting on which projects to
reduce and/or stop, to adjust the Budget due to the diminishing
number of paying members?
It's stated every now and then that RIPE NCC is a membership
association. Statements like »cutting services or activities is not
something the Board is planning to do« – especially reviewing
yesteryear's discussion about the RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2024 –
make this sound like a hollow phrase. The membership raised concerns
on an ever-growing Budget in the past — why is the Board still
ignoring these? Furthermore, offering no option to express »none of
the above, go back to square 1« constitutes a disturbing ignorance
of expressed member's concerns.
Regards,
-kai
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