[74051] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: European Nanog?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnold Nipper)
Mon Sep 13 07:07:51 2004
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:06:06 +0200
From: Arnold Nipper <arnold@nipper.de>
To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>
Cc: 'Nicolas DEFFAYET' <nicolas.deffayet@ndsoftware.net>,
'Ken Gilmour' <ken@playersonly.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040913105239.C7B0139941@equinox.DOMINO.ORG>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 13.09.2004 12:52 Neil J. McRae wrote:
>> As already noted here a couple of times:
>>
>>
>> RIPE != RIPE NCC
>>
>> Although MERIT is organizing NANOG meetings, no one would say:
>> MERIT == NANOG. Right?
>
>
> I love the obsession that people have with this!
>
> You can state what you like, but the income from the NCC is what
> mostly funds the other RIPE activities, in which case its all the
> same to me,
You are welcome with your sight of the world, but we still believe it's
not a disc ;-)
> does the EOF live on a RIPE.NET server? Yes. Who funds those servers?
>
There ae loads of websites living on someone else server (and even paid
for by someone else). But that does not make them necessarily belong to
someone else.
Arnold
