On 10.09 16:40, Niall O'Reilly wrote:
Membership is open to anyone using the RIPE NCC services.
Does this mean a non-LIR can be a member? How does that work in practice?
Touche! It used to be possible to become a LIR without getting an allocation. After having focusseed this discussion here really do not want to expand it again to address-policy ;-) I am sure this will be rationalised there eventually ;-(. Maybe we need a "sponsoring member" category where organisations like sympathetic ccTLDs could do their duty without contracts and SLAs. This would serve the purpose of fairness as explained in my original mail without the darn overhead of SLAs, liabilities and other such overhead. Maybe we could have them in several, self assessed sizes too. (deja-vu! ;-) Any takers? Daniel