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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">members-discuss <members-discuss-bounces@ripe.net> on behalf of Martin Millnert via members-discuss <members-discuss@ripe.net><br>
<b>Reply to: </b>Martin Millnert <martin.millnert@brainmill.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, 10 April 2024 at 14:17<br>
<b>To: </b>Fergal Cunningham <fergalc@ripe.net><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"members-discuss@ripe.net" <members-discuss@ripe.net><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [members-discuss] RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2025 Open House: Recording and Slides Available<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 22 Mar 2024, at 15:27, Fergal Cunningham <fergalc@ripe.net> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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This Wednesday, 20 March, we held an Open House with members about the RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2025. There was a presentation from RIPE NCC staff, including our CFO and Managing Director, as well as statements from both the Executive Board Chair and Treasurer.<br>
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There was a productive discussion about the financial landscape we are operating in and thoughts about how best to fund the RIPE NCC. The Executive Board will meet on Monday and discuss what we heard this week, and they will decide on a draft charging proposal
to put forward to the members in April.<br>
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The session recording and the slides from the presentation are available at:<br>
https://www.ripe.net/membership/meetings/open-house/ripe-ncc-charging-scheme-2025/<br>
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At the bottom of this mail you can find the timestamps for the sections of the presentation and Q&A.<br>
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We greatly appreciate the input we received from members this week and the constructive nature of the discussions. We encourage you all to continue to discuss the charging scheme on this list.<br>
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Fergal Cunningham<br>
Head of Membership Engagement<br>
RIPE NCC<br>
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Open House Timestamps<br>
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01:30 Welcome and Agenda, Fergal Cunningham<br>
04:30 Development and History of the Charging Scheme, Fergal Cunningham<br>
12:45 Consolidation and Inflation, Simon Jan Haytink<br>
19:10 The Work We Need to Fund, Simon Jan Haytink<br>
22:30 Summary and Key Questions, Hans Petter Holen<br>
27:20 Statement from Executive Board Chair, Ondřej Filip<br>
30:30 Statement from Executive Board Treasurer, Raymond Jetten<br>
32:45 Q&A with RIPE NCC Members<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I would like to suggest a Consumer Price Index based re-indexing of the costs, using standard European CPI numbers from Eurostat. We all have to deal with increases in costs due to inflation, and it’s fair that
RIPE does not have to fight inflation alone. Yearly inflation as released in March 2024 was at 2.4% — </span><a href="https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-euro-indicators/w/2-03042024-ap">https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-euro-indicators/w/2-03042024-ap</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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