No it hasn't been canned. It was approved by the membership (by a fairly narrow margin) at the last GM.
On 2 Aug 2012, at 16:36, Rob Golding <rob.golding@othellotech.net> wrote:
My objection isn't even on the current method if "sizing", but on the 7%
budget increase, when ....
541,000 on RPKI for a "routing database" because (apparantly) people dont
trust the existing database (which costs 844,000) - and hasnt the project
been canned anyway ?
It's not advertising. RIPE NCC doesn't advertise. But it does do a lot of work (as do the other RIRs) on explaining to Govts and other bodies that the internet works quite well as it does and that the whole thing shouldn't be handed over to the ITU (which is a serious threat, although less serious than it was, largely due to the work that RIPE et al have been doing). This is what is meant by "outreach".
427,000 on "outreach" - it's a RIR - what advertising does it need to do ?
Because the members seem to want it. If the members come out in large numbers and tell them not to do it then it will stop.
989,000 on measurement - presumably the usb "dongles" project - why exactly
are we wasting members money on this ?
Simply junking those items and you've saved nearly 15% for a start
agreed 100%