[cooperation-wg] RIPE 88 and the EU standardisation case

On 10-04-2024 14:42, Desiree Miloshevic wrote:
> ...
> Also here’s an interesting link to the last months’ ruling article.
> https://www.globalnorm.de/en/news-product-compliance/details/eu-malamud-case-and-cjeu-ruling-on-march-5-2024/
> It raises questions regarding to the European standardisation process.

Intereesting indeed.

The actual judgement can be found at:

https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf;jsessionid=2D421F4D58FCC1F3053AC53F626FD995?text=&docid=283443&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=1178057

To me, a non-legally-trained person, this looks like a square win and 
will be a
significant step to make EU standards freely available if they are in 
some way legally binding. I have little sympathy with the 
standardisation organisations having to organise their funding in a 
different manner than by selling the product of the experts that produce 
their standards. There are working examples like the IETF.

It is kind of embarassing that it takes our good friend Carl Malamud to 
move this forward from the US where he has achieved similar things.

Carl has been a regular participant in RIPE in the 1990s. He spent some 
time in Amsterdam working on the "1996 Internet World Fair"  after 
publising "Exploring the Internet" 
https://archive.org/details/exploringinterne00mala . Look those up for 
some educational entertainment.

Daniel