[ncc-services-wg] RIPE tasks

Subject: Re: [ncc-services-wg] RIPE tasks Date: Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 12:08:07PM +0200 Quoting Kurt Jaeger (lists at complx.LF.net):
> 
> If there had been no RIPE with crystal-clear policies as a very
> good example of self-gouvernance, many national government regulations
> would be in place instead -- and it would be a big mess.

Indeed -- a swedish government investigation (SOU 2002:60) concluded:

"In Europe it is RIPE who hands out IP address space to operators
 and other network owners. This arrangement has proved to be working,
 and there is no reason to alter it at the moment."

		SOU 2002:60, page 377, my (abridged) translation. 

Please note -- this is the investigation which writes the bill that
implements the EU communications directive in Sweden; they have the
theorethical power to suggest legislation that in effect forces all
IP address allocation to be made by a government authority, per
nation-state.  I do not think we or the governements want that...

-- 
Måns Nilsson         Systems Specialist
+46 70 681 7204         KTHNOC
                        MN1334-RIPE

I wonder if I ought to tell them about my PREVIOUS LIFE as a COMPLETE
STRANGER?
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