Peter, | > Sooner or later this is going to draw unwanted attention from | > authorities. Isn't it better to take preventive action now and make | > sure that the monopoly function is sufficiently separate of the other | > activities of the NCC in order to avoid this kind of problems ?!? | | But then there would be so much less money to fritter away on personal | projects and academic life. Why would you, if you were a comfortably secure | manager at RIPE, want this ? Undue sarcastic consipracy theory redetected ! Because the CSM is not an egocentric individual who puts his personal pleasure above what is good for his company. I work at an ISP too, with a gazillion nice toys to abuse for my own pleasure and you may not believe it but much the same as people at the NCC, I do not wish to abuse them in any way. It's called self-rightiousness and it based upon trust (from employer to employee, from member to CSM, ... ). -- __________________ Met vriendelijke groet, /\ ___/ Pim van Pelt /- \ _/ Business Internet Trends BV PBVP1-RIPE /--- \/ __________________