[address-policy-wg] Legal counsel on 2008-08 (Initial Certification Policy in the RIPE NCC Service Region)

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 10:11:10PM +0000, Sascha Luck wrote:
> Well, probably time someone actually said it. It makes more sense 
> than some global government conspiracy, however:
> the fact that NCC had a happy-clappy "very cordial" meeting with
> SOCA (yes, the Internet is Serious and Organised Crime in the UK)
> makes me wonder.

One of the tasks the NCC is mandated by the NCC members to do is "make sure
that the governments of our region understands how the Internet works,
how Internet self-regulation works, and that it's better to leave us
alone".  This is why those good people attend ITU meetings, meet with
LEAs, etc. - to make sure those "political accidents" that everybody is
afraid of do *not* happen.

There's serious dangers here, like "why should a private entity be allowed
to rule address governance in Europe?  The european commission and the
national governments are much better suited to do that!" - and the NCC
works togethe with these folks to make them see that our way *works* and
we need no extra regulation...

Gert Doering
        -- APWG chair
-- 
did you enable IPv6 on something today...?

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