[address-policy-wg] RIPE != RIPE NCC

Sascha -

On 10.06.2015 14:17, Sascha Luck [ml] wrote:
>> RIPE is an open community of people and organisations who are
>> interested in IP-based networking (and related matters), mostly
>> in Europe and the Middle East. It does not have a legal
>> identity. RIPE works by consensus. It does not vote. It does not
>> have any formal membership structure and therefore does not have
>> members in the same way that RIPE NCC has members. These things
>> are deliberate.
> 
> What is missing here is that the RIPE NCC, and its members, are bound by
> the policies that RIPE comes up with. In reality, this
> means that < 10 people on a mailing list (some of whom may or may
> not be sockpuppets) decide how ~12,000 members have to deal with
> the RIPE NCC.

this is correct. As all and any of these ~12k RIPE NCC members - or
rather their representatives as Local/Regional Internet Citizens - can
influence the PDP process. If they do not wish to do so - that is also
fine. But this would make any comment moot that the NCC members are not
or cannot be heard.

Best,

	-C.