[members-discuss] budget 2012

On 12/10/2011 16:52, Brandon Butterworth wrote:
> If you need to charge to make people use it effectively just put it on 
> our bill like everything else. Having to faff with clients signing 
> contracts was surprise and not wanted, trying to make clients become 
> LIR/direct RIPE customers was not wanted.

Agreed. However, that was what 2007-01 asked the RIPE NCC to do. So it 
was what the community wanted.

> Move it to UK and make a limited company then, that's a crazy risk to 
> have to take on personally

Even the directors of a UK limited company have personal financial 
liability under some circumstances. Of course in the commercial world 
there are rewards against which to balance the risk. Admittedly, the 
risk is small in the case of the RIPE NCC, but it is still there. All 
the board members do the job because we think the job is worth doing and 
the (non-financial) rewards exceed the risk.

Nigel

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