[eb-candidates] Question for all candidates

Hello, Daniel and all Community Members!

Thank you very much for your question!

About one month ago, the RIPE NCC Board proposed a draft of a new charging
scheme that stirred intense debate and resistance from a significant
portion of RIPE NCC Members. This motivated me to join a group (
https://t.me/ripe_budget_talks) to better understand RIPE NCC finances and,
ideally, to propose an alternative charging scheme that aligns with the
interests and needs of as many RIPE NCC Members across the regions as
possible. Our group had fewer than a dozen members at its inception and has
grown to 110 members, including RIPE NCC executives and the RIPE NCC Board
Chair.

Our first project was to propose an alternative charging scheme, but we ran
into a significant obstacle which almost derailed our effort and caused
delays - we missed crucial data in machine-readable formats. We lack
detailed machine-readable information about RIPE NCC members, LIRs (and
their relationship with RIPE NCC members) and their resources (IPv4, IPv6,
PI, ASN) that they hold. In response to this, we had to source side data to
compensate for the lack of this information from official sources. As we
progressed, we discovered a total lack of information about agreements with
legacy resource holders and associated fees. These details are crucial for
modeling charging schemes, yet they are clearly missing - this fact was
confirmed in writing by RIPE NCC staff.

The charging scheme is only one aspect of the RIPE NCC budget. Hence, we
sought to understand how RIPE NCC allocates its funds, and yet again, we
encountered significant gaps in our research which we were unable to fill
using information obtained through official channels. Please let me know if
you’re interested in details and I’ll be glad to share all our findings
with Community.


We cannot propose alternative charging schemes or find ways to reduce
budget without having all the information needed available to every single
Member of RIPE NCC in a clear and (ideally) machine readable format.

My personal focus as a potential RIPE NCC Board member will be on increased
transparency as it’s the only way to engage the incredible skill of our
wide RIPE NCC Member community and use it to find solutions to our current
and future challenges.


United we stand!


The RIPE Community is invited to join our initiative, by contributing
knowledge and expertise to improve the RIPE Community and RIPE NCC. Our
main communication platform is Telegram but we will be happy to add more
platforms if needed: https://t.me/ripe_budget_talks

If you have any feedback or ideas to share, please contact me here or reach
me via the following channels:

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   WhatsApp: +447437307046
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   Signal: pavel.50
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   Telegram: pavel_odintsov https://t.me/pavel_odintsov
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   LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/podintsov/
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   Discord: pavel.odintsov
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   IRC: LiberaChat pavel_odintsov


Thank you!



On Tue, 14 May 2024 at 15:16, Daniel Pearson <daniel at privatesystems.net>
wrote:

> It appears this mailing list does not get used very much but I would
> like a direct comment from each proposed candidate up for election on
> the charging scheme changes, and your view point on if RIPE should be
> reducing its budget and how the current situation is being handled.
>
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Daniel~
>
>
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> eb-candidates at ripe.net
> https://mailman.ripe.net/
>


-- 
Sincerely yours, Pavel Odintsov
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