[members-discuss] Charging scheme 2025 proposal (logarithmic)

I'm pretty sure we all told RIPE loudly last year to reduce it's budget 
but were ignored and now they are proposing an even higher budget this year.

So no, the two items are very linked.



On 4/16/24 9:48 AM, Dominique Rousseau wrote:
> Le Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 09:33:48AM -0500, Daniel Pearson [daniel at privatesystems.net] a écrit:
>> Everybody is still fighting about the wrong question.
>>
>> The question everyone should be arguing about is why it costs 40 million a
>> year to run an internet registry for 20,000~ members.
>>
>> Sure, the bulk of the expense is due to navigating the legal landscape of
>> multiple member nations, but you can't tell me that's 20-30 million a year
>> in legal fee's.
>>
> Both questions need to be handled, but they don't need to be tightly
> linked.
> Short term question is how to provide funds for the current 40M budget,
> in a model that fit the best.
>
> Expenses reduction is a multi-year plan.
>
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