On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 05:40 PM, Niall O'Reilly wrote:
On Wednesday, Sep 10, 2003, at 14:50 Europe/Dublin, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:
Membership is open to anyone using the RIPE NCC services.
Does this mean a non-LIR can be a member?
Well, yes. You don't have to request addresses to be interested in RIPE NCC services. Maybe they are all called LIRs but it might be interesting to know how many members don't send any address requests to the NCC and therefore, maybe, are just interested in the availability of the public services. As Daniel said, from the beginning the RIPE NCC has been more than an RIR, it has been a Network Co-ordination Centre, remember the maps of the Internet?
How does that work in practice?
You sign and you pay => You benefit. Joao