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[address-policy-wg] RIPE != RIPE NCC
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Carsten Schiefner
ripe-wgs.cs at schiefner.de
Wed Jun 10 15:05:59 CEST 2015
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.
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