New RIPE document announcement: ripe-84 "RIPE NCC Funding"

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	Ref:           ripe-84
	Title:         RIPE NCC Funding
	Author:        Rob Blokzijl, Daniel Karrenberg
	Date:          25 March 1993 
	Format:        PS=45393  TXT=18595    bytes


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The RIPE Network Coordination Centre supports all those RIPE
activities   which   cannot   be  effectively  performed  by
volunteers from the participating organisations.

The RIPE NCC started operation in the second quarter of 1992
and  currently  has  3  permanent  staff  members.  The RARE
association provides the legal and financial  framework  for
the  NCC. Funding for the first year of operation of the NCC
has been provided by EARN,  the  full  national  members  of
RARE,  Israel and EUnet.  These organisations have agreed to
guarantee funding of  NCC  operation  during  the  remaining
three  quarters  of  1993.   At  the  same  time  they  have
expressed that -while they guarantee continued  funding-  it
is  imperative  that the remaining European Internet service
providers start contributing  to  NCC  funding  as  soon  as
possible.    As  all  European  Internet  service  providers
benefit from  NCC  services,  the  costs  should  be  shared
appropriately.

Because of this RIPE seeks to establish  agreement  about  a
funding  model among European Internet service providers and
other organisations interested in contributing.

In this paper, an attempt is made to analyse the problem  by
categorising  the  services and user communities of the NCC,
discuss some of the possible options, and to  arrive  at  an
agreed framework for RIPE NCC funding.


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