Re: Meeting, Charging & Documents

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On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:

> 
>   > RHS Linux User moby@localhost writes:
>   > 
>   > But can someone teel me what is the difference between Small, Medium and 
>   > Large Registary? If there isnt apart for the amount of money we give RIPE 
>   > then what is the point?
> 
> Mike,
> 
> the only tangible difference at the moment is that we publish the
> sizes for everyone to see and that we list larger LIRs before smaller
> ones in our reference pages.
> 
> The self determined size categories go back to a time not so long ago
> when the Internet culture was slightly different and the ISPs agreed that
> this was a good mechanism to fund the NCC in a fair manner.
> 
> Perhaps these times have passed and we need to investigate more stringent
> mechanisms to determine registry size?
> 
> Daniel
> 

Hmm...

So we are paying more money for nothing! :-(


Mike