Keith Mitchell, Chairman (KM) Wilfried Woeber, Secretary (WW) Kees Neggers, Member (KN) Daniel Karrenberg, RIPE NCC manager (DK) Frode Greisen, Member (FG) Wim Vink, Treasurer (WV) Rob Blokzijl (RB) Kees van Draanen (KvD) Paul Rendek (PR) @@@@ http://www.ripe.net/meetings/board/six.html "5. Hiring Policy DK informs the Board about the recruitment problems RIPE-NCC has recently been having.... However, in recent months we have been experiencing more and more immigration difficulties when recruiting staff from outside the EU. The authorities have increased their scrutiny of applications for working permits for new staff from outside the EU." @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ The obvious solution seems to be to create MORE registries closer to where the people live. Why isn't that listed as an option ? Jim Fleming Unir Corporation - http://www.unir.com End-2-End: VPC(Java)--<IPv4>--C+ at ---<IPv8>---C+ at --<IPv4>--(Java)VPC http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt http://www.ddj.com/index/author/idx10133.htm -------- Logged at Mon Sep 28 13:24:27 MET DST 1998 ---------