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

On Wed, 26 Feb 2014, Opteamax GmbH wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On 26.02.2014 12:40, Sebastian Wiesinger wrote:
>> I agree with the NCC in regards of "not trusting an LIR". Becoming an
>> LIR is easy (money wise and procedure wise) and does not imply a high
>> value of trust for the LIR.
>
> But then we should preferably think about how to make LIRs more
> trustable ... IMHO the hierarchy of internet-number-assignment is
> intended to make the processes more handleable ... if the RIR does not
> trust his LIRs, what is the RIR for? Then we'd only need one world-wide
> registry (so probably ICANN) and they have to validate stuff... or we
> think about trusting the LIR (and maybe even make a withdrawal of
> resources extremely expensive for the LIR if he did not fullfill his
> obligations) and make it easy and possible to fullfill all regional (in
> this case countrywise) requirements all over the RIPE region.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand this as the reason for having
> LOCAL internet registries!

Absolutely. And RIPE still has about 10000 members so the NCC probably has 
some work to do just keeping track of the membership.

I am in favour of this trust chain model. If the trust is misused, then 
the trust as well as resources may be revoked.

Best Regards,

Daniel Stolpe

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