Dear colleagues, at the last RIPE meeting I gave a very short report on the state of NCC funding for 1994. Since then Rob and I have made some effort to solicit more commitments from service providers. This message is a detailed status report of the funding situation. The table below gives an overview of all organisations participating in funding the RIPE NCC during 1993 and 1994. The total expenditure of the NCC in 1994 is budgeted to be 260kECU, which is a lean budget not providing for more staff (yet) although both the number of tasks and the resources required by some tasks are increasing.
From the totals below you can deduce that we are still short of commitments. RARE has decided to accept the risk of shortfalls in income for 1994 in order to guarantee that the NCC will be able to operate. Of course it would be bad for the future of the NCC if this guarantee should be used.
We are now receiving support from the RARE secretariat in the funding effort. The secretariat will start the billing of all organisations which have made formal commitments and contact all organisations which have made informal commitments or not reacted tou our letters yet. What *you* can do: 1) If you have made an informal commitment before but not yet sent either billing details, check or purchase order, please do so as soon as possible to: Secretariat RARE Singel 466-468 NL-1017 AW Amsterdam phone: +31 20 6391131 fax: +31 20 6393289 mail: raresec@rare.nl 2) If you know any organisation which should be approached but is not on the list below, get in touch with us preferably providing a contact name there. 3) If you are concerned about the relative amounts contributed by particular organisations, please tell *them* first. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have indeed contributed to the funding of the NCC in the past and those who already have made firm commitments for 1994. Especially I would like to thank the EARN association for their substantial contribution in 1992 and 1993. Regards Daniel Karrenberg ------------------ Notes on the table: The order and grouping of contributors is in the table is historic and insubstantial. The columns labeled "firm" represent firm commitments or received amounts. The "ind." column represents informal indications. An amount of 1 in the "ind." column represents an informal commitment to contribute, but no amount. The numbers for 1993 are in some cases computed as (.25 * FirstYearContribution) + April-December-1993Contribution. Since the results have not been rounded some of these may seem a bit odd. RIPE NCC Contributions 1993 and 1994 ECU dfk 1.0 ECU=.83US$ 1993 firm 1994 ind. 1994 firm --------- --------- --------- RARE National Members RARE FR, RENATER 12931 12000 12000 RARE DE, DFN 12931 12000 12000 RARE IT, INFN (GARR) 12931 12000 12000 RARE UK, JNT 12931 12000 12000 RARE NL, SURFnet 8621 8000 8000 RARE ES, RedIRIS 8621 8000 8000 RARE CH, SWITCH 8621 8000 8000 RARE AT, ACONET 4884 4000 4000 RARE BE, BELNET 4884 4000 4000 RARE TR, TUVAKA 4000 4000 4000 RARE GR, ARIADNE 4065 4000 4000 RARE IE, HEANET 4065 4000 4000 RARE PT, RCCN 4065 4000 4000 RARE CZ, CESNET 1000 1000 1000 RARE LU, RESTENA 996 1000 1000 RARE SI, ARNES 1000 1000 1000 RARE HU, HUNGARNET 1000 1000 1000 RARE HR, CARNET 1000 1000 1000 RARE PL, NASK 1000 1000 1000 RARE RO 1000 1000 1000 RARE SK, SANET 1000 1000 1000 RARE IL 1000 4000 1000 RARE International Members NORDUNET 24268 21000 21000 EARN 51250 10000 10000 EUnet 8750 10000 10000 ESA 1 0 Other European Service Providers CERN EU 6000 Datanet FI 4000 4500 Demon UK 10000 3000 France Telecom FR 1 Helsinki Tel. DATANET FI 1 INFONET EU 3000 2916 Oulu Telephone FI 1 PIPEX GB 4000 10000 4000 Relteam RU 1 SWIPNET SE 1 TIPnet SE 1 Telepost NO 1000 1000 US Sprint EU 1 Unisource EU 10000 XLINK DE 3000 3000 Sponsors ANS US 1 Cisco Systems Europe 1000 2000 2000 IBM EMC 1000 INTEROP Europe 8330 8330 ------ ------ ------ TOTAL 201814 207338 174746 ====== ====== ======