[anti-abuse-wg] National PSDN "UZPAK"

On 28 Mar 2012, at 20:53, Florian Weimer wrote:

> * Fearghas McKay:
> 
>> On 28 Mar 2012, at 18:57, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> 
>>> Can RIPE NCC rely on the UK Register of Companies to validate requests
>>> which aim to establish a UK business as a LIR?
>>> 
>>> SOCA seems to suggest that the answer is "no".  This is disturbing.
>> 
>> Well since you don't need to be a registered company to hold LIR
>> assets then that is hardly surprising that Companies House is not
>> the ultimate source of all knowledge in this case.
> 
> True, but a signature from an officer of a registered company should
> be sufficient (together with the signup fee).  If it's not, there's
> something seriously wrong with the registration procedure.

You miss the point - there are many different kinds of commercial organisation structures that are not Limited/PLC/Limited by Guarantee companies that can hold LIR assets and be members. Why should I be a Limited/PLC/Limited by Guarantee company just to hold LIR membership or an ASN/PA/PI/etc space ? 

Just because SOCA finds it makes their life harder doesn't mean the whole commercial world has to change to make their lives a bit easier. 

Why do you find it disturbing that we can have different corporate structures ? All registered of course otherwise they would struggle to do business :-) 

	f