[lir-wg] RIPE costs and staffing again

On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 12:58:42PM +0100, Peter Galbavy wrote:
| After replying to a thread on NANOG about ARIN costs, and my perceived
| relationship to those discussed here about RIPE earlier, I received an
| interesting mail from someone who said: <quote>[X] and I did a bunch of
| surprise visits to the RIPE hostmasters, to see how many were on duty each
| time.  Out of 28, and average of two were on duty during business hours,
| with all the others on self-assigned "special projects" which nobody could
| define. They're up to 118 employees, at last count.</quote>

I've been a visitor in the NCC offices on more than one occasion and have 
seen more than two hostmasters doing their job. I'm also very satisfied with 
the performance of the hostmaster team at the moment. IP and AS assignments 
are well within acceptable levels.

groet,
Pim

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