[ncc-services-wg] RIPE tasks

>>> i see your point and i hope u see mine.  i would like to see 
>>> something like this brought to the membership for a vote or poll of 
>>> some sort.
>>> i would hope majority rules and accept the decision of the 
>>> membership.  -Han
>>
>> If you have a proposal, I will make room for you in the agenda.
>
> Is this sufficient?

Comments below. Do you want to make a presentation as well?

> Proposal: LIR voting for RIPE NCC services
> ------------------------------------------
>
> The RIPE NCC provides the following public services:
>
> - Registration services for Ipv4, Ipv6, inverse, ASN, and enum
> - Whois database
> - Routing Information Service project
> - Routing Registry Consistency project
> - Monthly RIPE region hostcount
> - DNSSEC services
> - Test Traffic measurement project
> - Training courses (LIR, DNSSEC, Routing registry)
> - RIPE tri-annual conference
>
> It is proposed that these services be presented by the RIPE NCC to the
> LIR membership on an annual basis, detailing the costs involved to run
> each item, the amount of manpower involved for each item and the 
> revenue
> generated by each item. Based on this background information, every LIR
> will be asked to vote which work items they support and which work 
> items
> they recommend to be downsized or terminated, or funded directly by
> those members participating in those specific projects.
>
> This poll of the LIR membership is to be performed no later than 4 
> months
> prior to the start of the next financial year, thereby leaving the 
> RIPE NCC
> sufficient time to reorganize its staff.

I am somewhat against the "poll of the LIR membership". I think a 
discussion at each NCC service WG is good. For practical reasons I 
would suggest (and this is actually something that Axel suggested to me 
in Barcelona as one of the tasks of the WG) that planned and existing 
projects are discussed in relation with the next years budget at the 
autumn RIPE meeting. This would give the NCC enough time to work on 
Budgets based on the discussions. I guess that one problem that arises 
is if we are also to accept the budget at the AGM that is in 
association with that RIPE meeting, the time in between is very short.

- kurtis -