[db-wg] 2022-01 Resource holders identity

On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 7:30 AM denis walker via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net> wrote:
>
> Colleagues
>
> Now we move on to the more difficult issue of identifying resource
> holders.

What do you mean by "resource holders"? Are you referring to someone
who has resources allocated or assigned to them directly by the RIPE
NCC? Or are you referring to someone whose resources come from an LIR
or a level below that?

[...]

> Before we can decide on the priorities of privacy vs public interest,
> we need to understand what that public interest is. How does that
> public interest fit with the purpose of the database? We need to have
> this discussion now on the purpose of the database and the public
> interest, or not, in certain bits of data to decide if the identities
> of natural persons holding resources can, should, must be hidden from
> public view.

It would also be good to understand whether this issue relates to a
tiny fraction of the registrations. What proportion of registrations
and what proportion of the registered number resources are we
discussing?

Thanks,

Leo