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

On 25/02/2014 21:34, David Monosov wrote:
> It's outstanding that the RIPE NCC has taken it upon itself to fulfill the
> community's wishes as set forth in 2007-01 with utmost care and competence,
> but I have sincere doubts that the people who championed 2007-01 envisioned it
> as means of turning the NCC into a databank of personal identity documents.

there are two separate issues to consider, firstly that the ripe ncc has a
duty to authenticate PI holders to some degree of due diligence, and
secondly how this is intertwined with the much more stringent legal
requirements of resource certification.

I don't see any particular reason not to accept post ident (and similar
authentication schemes with legal recognition in their own countries) for
the purposes of assignment of resources.  OTOH I could see how the ripe ncc
would have trouble making a claim of certification without unambiguous
formal legal authentication via e.g. photocopies of ID documents, notarised
endorsements, etc.

Nick