[members-discuss] [ncc-announce] [GM] Consultation on RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2024

RIPE is late to the party with migrating to the cloud.

Many companies have already learned from this and conduct a hybrid 
approach. I sure hope RIPE doesn't migrate to the cloud and come 
complaining because they left auto-scale enabled on AWS and got hit with 
a huge bill....

I agree, RIPE needs to slim down, it has added 26 employees over the 
last few years and yet their workload has decreased drastically due to 
the lack of ipv4 resources.



On 3/11/23 18:24, Alarig Le Lay via members-discuss wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue 07 Mar 2023 11:02:02 GMT, Kaj Niemi wrote:
>> An obvious option would be to reduce budgeted RIPE NCC expenditure to
>> the level of forecasted revenue. This is what most normal companies,
>> without assured funding, must do.
> I totally agree. If we look at the Draft Activity Plan and Budget 2023
> https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2022/documentation-and-archive/draft-ripe-ncc-activity-plan-and-budget-2023
> Right in the summary it’s written “Other factors affecting our budget
> include high inflation and costs related to major projects planned for
> 2023, especially our planned migration of some services to the cloud”
> So, if the budget is scarce, why continue such project in the first
> place?
>
> With that being the first justification of the budget, it’s not
> sufficient to increase the members participation for me.
>