On Sun, 23 Dec 2018 at 00:11, Adrian Pitulac <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Hans, > > Let me remind you first that I do support moving to a yearly billing! Just > not on this proposed tight schedule. > Thats great. I agree that the schedule seems a bit tight, but I understand from Gwens message that the intention is to offer a way to do payment in installments for those with cashflow limitations. As I understand it it will be a «change the default» to one bill once a year, with an option to spread the payments. I trust this will be clearer when the plan is published. But your calculations seem totally wrong as RIPE NCC allows us to pay > through PAYPAL which means 0 (0 USD/EUR) fees for us. Surely RIPE NCC pays > the fee for our transaction, but even in this case we see excess > redistribution. > If I pay by PayPal it would be more expesive for me as our accounting system has an integration with the bank to pay bills. If I do PayPal I have to user a credit card, and expense the amount, which takes more of my time but also another transaction in our accounting department. In either case I might save the cost of the bank transaction (and let the RIPE NCC pay the PayPal 2.9% fee) but not the cost of handling the 11 additional invoices. Moving to yearly billing, would mean maybe more excess redistribution, but > it's not very clear, because the money could be redirected elsewhere. So no > clear savings for the members. > The spending of the money is deceided by the members trough the anual activity plan, make sure to engage in the discussion in the services working group. Hans Petter -- -- Hans Petter Holen Mobile +47 45 06 60 54 | [email protected] | http://hph.oslo.net
