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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">As my grandfather use to say. "If it
ain't broke, don't fix it".<br>
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I know it makes everyone feel good to have these pointless
discussions and if that's what it takes by all means continue on,
I do find them entertaining, but please, join reality. End of the
day this is business, it costs money. Considering no rate
increases and the fact that most years we've had a surplus so who
cares if they blow a little money on hookers and coke, it's ok.
RIPE provides us a good, reliable service and prompt turn around
time on any requests. As someone else has said, try working with
other RIRs. <br>
<br>
Anyways, carry on.<br>
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On 04/13/2018 02:03 AM, Huf Oliver, CI-A Rolls-Royce Power Systems
AG wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">William,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">while I don't feel competent enough to comment
on the first part of your reply, I fully second the last
paragraph!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Oliver.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><b>Von:</b>
members-discuss [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:members-discuss-bounces@ripe.net">mailto:members-discuss-bounces@ripe.net</a>]
<b>Im Auftrag von </b>William<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Freitag, 13. April 2018 02:16<br>
<b>An:</b> Aleksey Bulgakov
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:aleksbulgakov@gmail.com"><aleksbulgakov@gmail.com></a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:members-discuss@ripe.net">members-discuss@ripe.net</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:agm@ripe.net">agm@ripe.net</a><br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] [GM]
RIPE NCC Annual Report 2017 and Proposed RIPE NCC Charging
Scheme 2019<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Must
be some joke (i hope at least).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Russia
does not have staff needs available unless you pay
excessive (skilled are in fact leaving anyway, we have a
bunch of Russians working from Cyprus nowadays), Russia
is not politically stable (a stable autocracy is not
politically stable overall) and the currency fluctuates
between basically worthless and entirely worthless.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Government
control is excessive, freedom of business is low, growth
is low, legal security is nil.... plus one more round of
UN sanctions could cut off any RIPE member from paying
invoices entirely.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Russia
is in no way suitable for RIPE (and in fact, Bulgaria
has less tax than Russia anyway + a much more simple tax
system + EU).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">In
case of no joke... after speaking with some LIRs we'll
boycott any attempts to move the NCC out of the EU and i
assume from the statutes this requires a full member
vote which is extremely unlikely to pass for Russia (or
in practice anyone else).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Weber<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">On
Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 01:39, Aleksey Bulgakov <<a
href="mailto:aleksbulgakov@gmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">aleksbulgakov@gmail.com</a>>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><<a
href="mailto:david.ponzone@ipeva.fr"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">david.ponzone@ipeva.fr</a>>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">AFAIK,
social charges paid by the employer in NL
are around 28%, so it's less than 3000
euros per month per staff member of
income.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">And
that's before social charges paid by the
employee (18%), so it's less than 2500€
of net income per staff.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">I
would not judge if that's high or low in
NL, but that's not 4000€<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">So,
we can move the RIPE office to another country,
with less salary numbers. E.g. there are the
salary numbers approximately 1500€ in Russia,
including tax 13%. With social tax 30%
the salary numbers are 2000€ in Moscow. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">What
do you think about it? Me and my colleagues, who
wrote here earlier, are ready to help the
community with relocation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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