This always happens when a party can decide their pay by themselves. It's just human nature. If you could decide to earn 10% more this year, by just your decision without any practical repercussions -- wouldn't you do it? All anyone needs to do is look at any government in the world, and their ever growing budgets and ever higher "money" printing. There's no checks and balances really, so it always happens. It's like taxes, they only ever go up -- never down. -Aleksi Magna Capax Finland Oy On 16/04/2024 17.54, Daniel Pearson wrote:
I'm pretty sure we all told RIPE loudly last year to reduce it's budget but were ignored and now they are proposing an even higher budget this year.
So no, the two items are very linked.
On 4/16/24 9:48 AM, Dominique Rousseau wrote:
Le Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 09:33:48AM -0500, Daniel Pearson [daniel@privatesystems.net] a écrit:
Everybody is still fighting about the wrong question.
The question everyone should be arguing about is why it costs 40 million a year to run an internet registry for 20,000~ members.
Sure, the bulk of the expense is due to navigating the legal landscape of multiple member nations, but you can't tell me that's 20-30 million a year in legal fee's.
Both questions need to be handled, but they don't need to be tightly linked. Short term question is how to provide funds for the current 40M budget, in a model that fit the best.
Expenses reduction is a multi-year plan.
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