[ncc-services-wg] RIPE tasks

	Peter,

On onsdag, aug 13, 2003, at 15:00 Europe/Stockholm, Peter Galbavy wrote:

> Neil J. McRae wrote:
>> Just to be clear, I don't think anyone, in most cases, has an
>> objection to what the RIPE has been doing or how its being done,
>> its more an objection of the "forced" participation through the
>> funding of the NCC which is completely unfair.
>
> Agreed from my perspective.
>

I am just trying to understand you reasoning. So you agree that the 
projects of RIPE NCC are useful, but you don't really want to pay for 
them?

Although I also think that the NCC needs to work on their financials, 
especially when their customers are in a down-turn, I also see that a 
number of the projects that the NCC deals with, doesn't really have a 
better home in the European Internet. If you look at what the RIRs do 
in the other regions, the more established ones as in ARIN and APNIC, 
also have activities outside their main focus. The RIRs have 
traditionally given a good co-operative framework for these types of 
projects. If we think that these projects are useful, we need to decide 
how they should be run and funded.

Personally I am not sure this is so much of an issue over if the RIPE 
NCC should do certain projects, as I think this is an issue over 
increased transparency in financials, information to the membership and 
better reporting on project progress/costs to the membership.

Best regards,

- kurtis -