[cooperation-wg] RIPE NCC Hosts Workshop for Russian LEAs

> On 27 Mar 2018, at 20:43, Alexander Isavnin <isavnin at gmail.com> wrote:
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> P. S.  Objections for transpatency of RIPE NCC LEA meetings are usially recieved from former police officers.  Hmmm, what are they trying to hide? 

Alexander, I don't understand your complaint or why it's directed at the NCC. If you want transparency, openness and so on from Russian law enforcement, that's something to discuss with the Russian authorities. Good luck with that. :-)

It's perfectly reasonable for the NCC to have confidential meetings with people and organisations for all sorts of things: recruitment, RFP responses, negotiations with suppliers, professional advice from lawyers and beancounters, etc, etc. This Russian workshop is just another example.

IMO if the NCC has some workshop with the Russian cops and the cops say "OK, but we want this to be confidential", it's fine to go ahead on that basis. I expect the NCC has closed meetings with law enforcement across the service region: active criminal investigations, forensics for botnet herders. DDoS mitigation, etc, etc.

If anything sinister emerged at this workshop, we can (or should) trust the NCC staff to do The Right Thing.