[74054] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: European Nanog?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnold Nipper)
Mon Sep 13 07:43:19 2004
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:42:28 +0200
From: Arnold Nipper <arnold@nipper.de>
To: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0409130409010.26408-100000@sokol.elan.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 13.09.2004 13:27 william(at)elan.net wrote:
> I'm not so certain about RIPE NCC to RIPE relationship though, I suspect
> that RIPE NCC is a subset (RIR services or) larger RIPE organization that
> is involved in other activities, i.e. RIPE NCC < RIPE
>
No, that's not true. There is no order function for EOF, RIPE and RIPE
NCC. While EOF has a RIPE WG status it is not a RIPE WG (this was at
least my understanding). And the only relation between RIPE and RIPE NCC
is that RIPE NCC is "provid(es)ing administrative support for RIPE".
> But of course, overall funding for RIPE still comes from RIPE NCC, so
> while other activities of RIPE are not necessarilty parts of RIPE NCC
> they are still funded by it :)
>
There is no overall funding for RIPE. For what? Meeting costs and the
like are paid for by the meeting participants.
Arnold
