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

At 11:16 03/10/2011 +0200, Erik Bais wrote:
>Hi Jon,
>
>Without repeating myself in this discussion, I'll just post a url for you 
>to read from earlier this year on the topic.
>http://www.ripe.net/maillists/ncc-archives/members-discuss/2011/msg00154.html
>
>Basically, the members approve the activity schedule for the RIPE NCC. 
>That means that we also shouldn't bitch about a certain cost, not for 
>profit doesn't mean free :)

We do not get much of a say as to how much budget should be applied for 
regional meetings, consultancy, training courses, RIPE meetings, marketing, 
r&d, etc.  We are given a budget that increases every year and are told to 
ratify it - of which only 5% of the membership vote.  Most LIRs don't care 
if the fee is 3KEuro or 10KEuro since it just gets absorbed as a minor cost 
overhead as passed on to customers.  And RIPE knows it.

-Hank


>If we don't agree..either we should have a look at how certain costs are 
>being made or we should scrap certain activities.
>
>In the end.. we're only talking about 6.25 euro per LIR per day.
>
>Regards,
>Erik Bais
>
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