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
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