[address-policy-wg] Address/ASN certificates and RIPE NCC Transparency Report?, was Legal counsel on 2008-08 (Initial Certification Policy in the RIPE NCC Service Region)

Martin,

On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 08:37 -0400, Martin Millnert wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Alex Band <alexb at ripe.net> wrote:
> 
> > Also, you have to realise that we've been working on this since 
> > 2006, by our Community's request. The system is based on open 
> > IETF standards in the SIDR working group which has been active even
> > longer. All of this has been done in a completely open and 
> > transparent way.
> 
> Purely out of curiosity here, does the complete openness and
> transparency of the process so far include the code that the RIPE NCC
> has developed together with external consultants? I've been looking
> around at http://www.ripe.net/ but I couldn't find an URL to the
> subversion repository mentioned in the CPS [1].
> 
> I do remember hearing from the meeting that some code was planned to
> be released. Are you going to be releasing all of the code, or will
> some be kept for obscurity or other reasons?

Speaking of openness... :)

It would be nice if the RIPE NCC could commit to something like the
Google Transparency Report, where all government requests for legal
action are published openly:

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/

Looking at those numbers makes it pretty clear to me that governments
will be mucking around with routing policy eventually, whether or not we
have certificates.

It might be nice to have something like this independent of any eventual
certification policy.

--
Shane