[address-policy-wg] Litigation for fun and profit

On Sat, Apr 16, 2016, at 17:10, Jim Reid wrote:
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> > On 16 Apr 2016, at 14:53, Dominik Nowacki <dominik at clouvider.co.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > And such LIR would sue who? Himself? RIPE NCC is not a government body, nor a private company. It's an organisation of members, and such a LIR would have to be a member with set voting rights. You can't really sue for policy changes because you don't like how other, equal members voted.
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> They’d start by suing the NCC for implementing a policy which has done
> harm to the LIR’s business. If they were vindictive, they’d also go after

Here we are in the FUD domain. I think we should not go that way.

> the authors of the policy change, the individuals who supported that
> policy proposal and those who had a hand in making the consensus
> judgement.

I, as a proposer would not fear about that. Justice is complex in its
own, international justice (neither of the proposers live in UK or NL)
is even more complex.

> action(s) would get the attention of governments and regulators. That would be Bad. 

Regulators may end up acting in either direction (for or against).

> decisions are made by consensus. NCC members get to vote for board
> candidates, the charging scheme and the organisation’s activity plan.

And in certain circumstances, on other things....