Moin, am 12.04.24 um 10:16 schrieb Tobias Fiebig via members-discuss:
By analogy, we can't afford an all-inclusive package holiday, we just want to hire a car! You are not _required_ to become an LIR / member. You can always enter an agreement with an LIR that they will handle registration services for you, holding the registration rights in trust, putting a MNT-BY for you on the object, delegating rDNS etcetc.
Erm, PI space is for End Users only, so as an ISP one would need PA space and for business security reasons one would not want to rely on leased PA of another LIR that would be gone if the LIR would cease to exist. Thus, in all practical ways, if you're not an End User, you _are_ required to become an LIR to secure "your" address space.
We, the membership, voted for a set of activities; The board now
No, that's the main point, we didn't get to vote on activities in the last AGM – see Gert's mail the other day –, although we've had the same discussion about the budget being too high last Spring. Last Spring we were told 'now' is not the time to discuss the activities nor the budget, 'now' is just the time to discuss how to break down the budget in membership fees.
We ordered the cake, we have to pay the cake.
Well, not exactly; somehow the uproar regarding the Charging Scheme for 2024 last Spring did not lead to changes to the cake recipe. So, yes, we now have to pay for the cake the Board ordered in good faith for us, but I *do* expect that this Autumn at last the Board will put forward a poll on which services and activities should be discontinued in order to down-size the cake^Wbudget.
But starting the discussion after ordering the cake is somewhat difficult.
That's why I question if that model is still wise; second year in a row in Spring a lot of members wonder why fewer and fewer members have to pay an ever increasing bill for a cake they only got a mouthfull of ... Regards, -kai -- Kai Siering Senior System Engineer mail.de GmbH Münsterstraße 3 D-33330 Gütersloh Tel.: +49 (0) 5241 / 74 34 986 Fax: +49 (0) 5241 / 74 34 987 E-Mail:k.siering@team.mail.de Web:https://mail.de/ Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter: Fabian Bock Sitz der Gesellschaft Nordhastedt Handelsregister Pinneberg HRB 8007 PI Steuernummer 18 293 20020