[ripe-167] Impressions brought from Moscow meeting

>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),

  While it's probably a good idea to continue the RIPE NCC tradition of
  employing staff from different regions and with diverse linguistic
  background, I do *not* agree that "splitting" the RIPE NCC along the
  lines of language(s) is useful. 

  Btw, this statement is not to be seen as specifically aiming at the
  Russian language! The very same point holds true for say German or
  French or Spanish.
  
  What we want to preserve across the whole Internet and in particular
  amongst the registries, is exchange of information, sharing of knowledge
  and harmonisation of procedures. In the Internet of today, we happen to
  use the English language for that purpose. 
	  		(...discussing the reasons for that is probably
			    outside the scope of this discussion :-).

  Wilfried.
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