[ncc-services-wg] RIPE tasks

MN> 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.

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

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

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

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

It depends. Recently, Ukrainian authority has made completely another statement.


Serge.




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