RIPE NCC’s budget and membership fees — Speaker Series 10
What is a fair price for a shared registry service?
Lu Heng · English recording
Lu Heng discusses the cost of running RIPE NCC, the regional Internet registry serving Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia. He calls for a reassessment of membership fees and their effect on access to Internet resources.
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His later writing asks a related question: does the claimed scarcity of IPv4 justify the power and cost of the institutions administering it?