[ncc-services-wg] RIPE tasks

Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote:
> Are you also saying that having to have the AGM vote is a problem? In
> that case how would you else want to do it? Voting anytime through out
> the year if enough people called for a vote? That would make it more
> or less impossible to make or follow a budget in any reasonable way.

I do not believe that the use of the AGM is appropriate for the "big switch"
being used to approve a proposed budget that included 100% of projects. The
budget needs approval, but it appears to much "yes or no". There is no
consultation - formal, bot mailing list chatter - on what projects are
approved for inclusion into said budget approval.

> For voting? Have you read the lir-wg list from this spring and the
> results of the KPMG survey as well as the presentations made by Axel
> of suggested improvements? Did you bring this up when you became a
> RIPE NCC member?

I was not aware of the scale of the issue, and the membership fee was not
increased by 50% without much consultation *before* I became a member.

> Have anyone opposed this? Or are you just assuming that the world is a
> conspiracy against you?

I am not so delusional as to believe there is any kind of conspiracy against
me, either as an individual or as a RIPE member. That does not however
preclude the use of the word "conspiracy" to apply to the furthering of the
agendas and interested of those who run NGOs like RIPE. Note the
differentiation of "conspiracy against" vs. "conspiracy for" ?

Peter