[members-discuss] Discuss Charging Scheme 2010

> > -this cannot be done, its blackmail!-
>
> It's the RIPE membership (the LIRs), that change these policies, not the
>   NCC. The NCC has to action them.
>
> Has nothing to do with blackmail. At the end of the day, it's a decision
> driven by RIPE members, who take an active role.
>
> Policies change, if you don't like'm you can try to change them again.
> Just requires a majority approval for a policy proposal.
>

hiding behind "democratic internal processes" changes nothing to that
fact.

if the members of ripe decided ripe was not going to pay taxes this year,
im quite sure that the democratic aspect would not warrant it from
prosecution :P

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On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Martin List-Petersen wrote:

> Sven Olaf Kamphuis wrote:
> >> Anyhow, this whole matter was also already raised at the GM.
> >
> > unfortunately for RIPE those agreements only cover the effort to REGISTER
> > the PI space in the first place, no renewal fees were ever mentioned.
> >
> > -this cannot be done, its blackmail!-
>
> It's the RIPE membership (the LIRs), that change these policies, not the
>   NCC. The NCC has to action them.
>
> Has nothing to do with blackmail. At the end of the day, it's a decision
> driven by RIPE members, who take an active role.
>
> Policies change, if you don't like'm you can try to change them again.
> Just requires a majority approval for a policy proposal.
>
> Kind regards,
> Martin List-Petersen
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>
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