[members-discuss] Proposed 2012 Charging scheme, Board comments

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 04:42:50PM +0200, Erik Bais wrote:
>The RIPE meetings are mostly taped and broadcasted online already ...
>The benefit of having the RIPE meetings in person is that people 
>actually have a better interaction than with a webinar.

Indeed. In fact, I'd like to see more of the membership/community 
encouraged to come to RIPE meetings because, as much as has changed,
"The Internet" is still a cooperative effort on the IP layer.

I'd think though, that, if the cost of holding meetings in faraway 
places is more than inconsiderable, it may be worth thinking about 
holding all of them in Amsterdam - the NCC is there and it is easily 
reached from most places. 

What worries me more about the continuing budget increases, is that 
money is spent on an ever increasing range of activities that,
strictly speaking, are not relevant to the RIR function. 
I will probably comment more on that once I've actually seen the 
proposed budget 2012. 

In general, given that probably every member is feeling the current 
economic crisis and the NCC budget is rising steadily as if nothing
had happened, something will have to give eventually...

rgds,
Sascha Luck