Niall O'Reilly wrote:
On 8 Oct 2007, at 13:00, Jim Reid wrote:
But when DNSMON is part of a monopoly RIR and (partly?) funded from that monopoly's membership fees....
Is that so?
I was given to understand that the costs of the Test Traffic service (of which DNSMON is an optional part) were borne by the subscribers to that service, and not subsidised by membership fees.
I definitely clear an annual *additional* (to the LIR cost) invoice for the TT-Service and the care-and-feeding of our TTM Box :-)
It is possible either that my recollection is faulty, or that I just misunderstood.
I definitely know that the NCC has spent quite some effort to drastically reduce or eliminate those cross-subsidising things. That's one of the reasons why the att. fees for RIPE Meetings have gone up considerably over the years, and new LIRs get a (2?) voucher/s as part of their sign-up fees.
/Niall
I presume this stuff is never perfect or completely done, but IMHO the NCC is fully aware of these issues. Wilfried.