It is quite expensive to be a full member of RIPE though. Most people with smaller requirements can go through a sponsoring LIR to get PI space (like a /48).
I usually pay less than 1.000 € / year for my RIPE membership and associated /22. RIPE actually gives back money they don't need to members, so in some years I get back a significant part of my base fee. And I get two free tickets to the RIPE conference, which is an excellent event and alone worth the price of membership.
The cost of being a member is literally on the tin. They tell you up front that identities are scarce and must be purchased.
As regards programming cost, I'm speaking from experience when I say that if you know how to program, you already know how to write Hoon. It's that intuitive.
Oh, interesting -- I assumed you had to have a membership to the RIR directly (APNIC in my case, which would have been upwards of 1000AUD/month). Hmm... Thanks!
That's true. Many of these sorts of memberships are at least a few hundred dollars when you are no longer a student, so they add up pretty quickly (but maybe have tax credits).
Nope. I've even had them pay my membership costs for ACM and IEEE and various SIGs or Societies within them. Why wouldn't they want you to participate, even passively, in these organizations?
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