At 11:16 03/10/2011 +0200, Erik Bais wrote:
Hi Jon,
Without repeating myself in this discussion, I'll just post a url for you to read from earlier this year on the topic. http://www.ripe.net/maillists/ncc-archives/members-discuss/2011/msg00154.htm...
Basically, the members approve the activity schedule for the RIPE NCC. That means that we also shouldn't bitch about a certain cost, not for profit doesn't mean free :)
We do not get much of a say as to how much budget should be applied for regional meetings, consultancy, training courses, RIPE meetings, marketing, r&d, etc. We are given a budget that increases every year and are told to ratify it - of which only 5% of the membership vote. Most LIRs don't care if the fee is 3KEuro or 10KEuro since it just gets absorbed as a minor cost overhead as passed on to customers. And RIPE knows it. -Hank
If we don't agree..either we should have a look at how certain costs are being made or we should scrap certain activities.
In the end.. we're only talking about 6.25 euro per LIR per day.
Regards, Erik Bais
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