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-this cannot be done, its blackmail!-

It's the RIPE membership (the LIRs), that change these policies, not the NCC. The NCC has to action them.

Has nothing to do with blackmail. At the end of the day, it's a decision driven by RIPE members, who take an active role.

Policies change, if you don't like'm you can try to change them again. Just requires a majority approval for a policy proposal.

hiding behind "democratic internal processes" changes nothing to that fact. if the members of ripe decided ripe was not going to pay taxes this year, im quite sure that the democratic aspect would not warrant it from prosecution :P -- Sven Olaf Kamphuis CB3ROB DataServices Phone: +31/87-8747479 Skype: CB3ROB MSN: sven@cb3rob.net C.V.: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cb3rob Confidential: Please be advised that the information contained in this email message, including all attached documents or files, is privileged and confidential and is intended only for the use of the individual or individuals addressed. Any other use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Martin List-Petersen wrote:

Sven Olaf Kamphuis wrote:

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Anyhow, this whole matter was also already raised at the GM.

unfortunately for RIPE those agreements only cover the effort to REGISTER the PI space in the first place, no renewal fees were ever mentioned.

-this cannot be done, its blackmail!-

It's the RIPE membership (the LIRs), that change these policies, not the NCC. The NCC has to action them.

Has nothing to do with blackmail. At the end of the day, it's a decision driven by RIPE members, who take an active role.

Policies change, if you don't like'm you can try to change them again. Just requires a majority approval for a policy proposal.

Kind regards, Martin List-Petersen -- Airwire - Ag Nascadh Pobail an Iarthair http://www.airwire.ie Phone: 091-865 968

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