[ripe-167] Impressions brought from Moscow meeting

On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Mike Norris wrote:

> > IMO, every LIR is free to decide about the RIR they want to be served, 
> > and it could happen, that LIRs at the same country will be served by
> > different RIRs. 
> > 
> 
> OK, but what do you feel about the corollary: is a RIR free to choose
> any LIR that seeks service, or is it constrained to serve only those
> within a certain (or sometimes uncertain) geographical area?  Before
> answering, remember what the E in RIPE, the A in ARIN and the AP
> in APNIC stand for.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Mike Norris

Thanks Mike,  it's a briliant remark!

Excerpt from RIPE-167:

	If  has been suggested more than once that the coun-                
	tries of the CIS in fact form a separate region from                
	Europe that needed special regional support.

Sounds with no pardon... A huge region is treated as Terra ******* (self
censored) Incognita with savage population.

FYI: CIS countries are Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Moldova, Armenia, 
Georgia, Azerbaidjan, Kazakhstan, Kirgyzstan, Uzbekistan,Tadjikistan,
Turkmenistan.

There is no denying the fact that part of them are in Europe or very
close to it.

IMHO the only difference between two EUROPEAN RIRs is working language
(English for RIPE and Russian for RIPN). 

If it will be decided that the best solution to serve Russian speaking
community is to create  separate RIR (istead of employing some Russian
speaking hostmasters at RIPE NCC, creating separate list like
hostmaster-ru at ripe.net and so on),  it seems essential that European LIRs
might choose among the 2 European RIRs, but not vice versa, 
when some _authority_ will decide, that starting from day V. all LIRs 
in country CC will be served by appropriate RIR. 

I hope that authors of the document are on the list and kindly
invite them clearify the essence.
Othervise we'll continue discussion about nothing.

With best regards,

Rimas Janusauskas