On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 03:00:14PM +0200, Paolo Di Francesco wrote:
Therefore I do not find scandalous that a bigger LIR that probably makes billions per year (e.g. mobile companies) should pay to RIPE 50K Euros per year. RIPE is not useful only to me, but to EVERY SINGLE EUROPEAN LIR. Moreover, the more resources (e.g. IPv4, AS, etc) you allocate, the more you use the DB, the more you open tickets, etc.
Firstly, not everyone makes money from the use of resources. Non-profits, charitable organisations, and individuals with PI space exist. Secondly, it would require the NCC to *know* how much money a member makes and this information is something a non-public company would not be keen to divulge. Thirdly, I'm sure there are many large telcos who, while using large amounts of resources, are actually making a loss on paper. Will they get a free ride?
1) can we delegate somebody to go and vote? If so we could ask to other Lirs or Associations of Providers to step in and do vote for N LIRs. I do not think that would be a problem to delegate somebody who will represent your company, isn't it?
2) do we have a remote mechanism to participate and vote?
A member can nominate a proxy to vote on their behalf or vote electronically (that has in the past not always been possible for all votes) as laid out in http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-514 I note that http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/gm does not have any information regarding these possibilities, maybe the NCC could remedy this? rgds, Sascha Luck