[members-discuss] Charging Scheme, Budget Questions

I raised a question in the open house in March.

- Why RIPE will not consider raising the cap for the larger LIRs that
can actually afford it?

The answer was (in my own words) that they are concerned that instead of
the tech people being on the board, it would be management on the board
in the future.

Do you really think strings aren't being pulled from the connections in
place? The administrative structure in place is by design.


On 5/2/23 13:32, Alex Le Heux wrote:
>> On 29 Apr 2023, at 10:39, Josh Jameson <josh at servebyte.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 4/28/23 14:22, Phillip Baker wrote:
>>> 2. Why are the categories (still) so coarse?
>> It's clear to me that the majority of people on the RIPE NCC Executive
>> Board are the large entities that this doesn't appeal to. They aren't
>> going to propose a scheme which isn't in their favor. We need to get a
>> lot more smaller entities nominated onto the board that represent the
>> smaller LIRs.
> This is not true.
>
> The current executive board consists of people who’s day jobs are:
>
> Four members from small organizations:
>
> 1 TLD Operator
> 1 University
> 1 Small IXP Operator
> 1 NREN
>
> Only three that can be called ‘large entity’ when you stretch the imagination a bit:
>
> 1 Medium-sized ISP
> 2 Large CDNs
>
> I doubt that any of the large ones really cares if their LIR bill is 5.000 EUR or 20.000 EUR as they easily spend 1000x or 10000x that amount to put those IPs to work.
>
> Alex