[address-policy-wg] Post Ident / Post Brief

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 04:03:40PM +0100, Athina Fragkouli wrote:
> These options are outlined in the RIPE NCC procedural document ???Due
> Diligence for the Quality of the RIPE NCC Registration Data???, which is
> available at:
> http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-556
> 
> We believe these options cover situations where the natural persons do
> not want to provide their identification card or passport.

Well.  Since this is procedures and not policy, we have no formal
authority over this - OTOH, I think I'm not alone when I have the feeling
that this exceeds the requirements of the policy by far.

I can see the wish for such a strong requirements for end users that 
become direct access users (DAU) with the RIPE NCC, but that category was 
discontinued anyway.

For normal end users, the policy requires "a contract with a sponsoring 
LIR", and I think it should be fully sufficient to leave questions of 
identity validation for natural persons to the LIR in question.  Like 
"I know this person personally, I'm fine with doing business with him", 
that should be good enough for the NCC as well - after all, the whole 
idea of the "sponsoring LIR" construct is that the NCC has a trusted 
intermediate, and the end user does not have to deal with the NCC.


Of course I can't decide anything what the NCC will do or not do, but what 
I *can* do is put this on the next meeting's APWG agenda, to discuss what
requirements for ID validation the community mandates.  The NCC should
not gratiously exceed the bureaucracy demanded from it.

Gert Doering
        -- APWG chair
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