[anti-abuse-wg] latest RIPE reply on privacy

 >The RIPE NCC is not paid for by the USA taxpayer, and most of the 
personal data they hold has been collected by RIPE.

RIPE is able to register IP's and collect the fees because of the MOU 
with IANA which is paid for by the USA taxpayer.   RIPE
can collect user fees because they entered into the MOU agreement with 
IANA.  Part of that agreement is to provide certain
services required by the RIR's which includes the whois data.  RIPE 
collected this data under the MOU agreement and has agreed
to make the data available under the MOU agreement.  The entire system 
hinges on the US government contract with IANA.

RIPE clearly says the members
are responsible for entering their own data into the RIP database so the 
members voluntarily give up any privacy protection
under EU directives when they do that.

These issues are all on topic and need to be dealt with before you can 
start discussing you want to discuss.  I don't understand why
these issues have not be dealt with before but many want to ignore them 
and run around changing policies
without taking this stuff into account.

Thank You