[members-discuss] [ncc-announce] [GM] Executive Board Meeting to Discuss Charging Scheme Input from Members

On 07/05/2024 18:56, Alex Le Heux wrote:

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> The right way to reduce the fees is to adjust the budget and the right way to adjust the budget is to adjust the Activity Plan. The board often specitically asks for input about this and there’s even an entire ncc-services working group to discuss such things.
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> What’s happening here is something else though: Some loud folks are demanding a particular charging scheme while not having any concrete proposals about how to reduce expenses. This will just leave the RIPE NCC with a budget deficit and it is the board’s legal duty to resist such efforts.
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> It feels similar to a five year old staming his foot and demanding an ice cream.
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> Want to reduce membership fees?
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> Work on an activity plan that requires a reduced budget.
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> Anything else is silly.
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> And as Ondrej Filip writes, the board is aware of the concerns and has plans to address these. The RIPE NCC is not a neighbourhood football club though, it’s an RIR with massive responsibilities, so these things take a bit of time.
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> Cheers,
> 
> Alex Le Heux
> Network Architect
> Tucows Inc / Ting Fiber
> aleheux at tucowsinc.com

+1.

So true.  Want to reduce fees?  We need to have a reduced activity plan. 
  I would hope the board polls the membership in regards to a reduced 
activity plan.

-Hank