[ncc-services-wg] [policy-announce] 2012-08 New Policy Proposal (Publication of Sponsoring LIR for Independent Number Resources)

2012-10-16 12:14, Nick Hilliard skrev:
> Hi Bengt
>
> On 16/10/2012 09:44, Bengt Gördén wrote:
>> First. I'm in favor of this proposal if the sponsoring LIR is clearly
>> stated in the resource. Would it be to much to ask if the record in the db
>> would reflect the relationship between sponsering LIR and the object
>> maintainer? It could be as lightweight as "databasehelper-mnt" or something
>> more suitable.
> Kaveh Ranjbar presented some ideas at the last RIPE meeting which may be
> relevant to this:
>
> https://ripe65.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/db-wg/

Thank you. That saved me some time digging through the "have not seen" 
sessions. I was at the EIX session at that time.

>
>> that the sky will not fall down. At least not in Sweden. We get about 0.8%
>> "DMCA take down requests" or similar in proportion to the number of
>> assignment resources in the RIPE database that we have. We just have to
>> politely respond to them and explain the situation. I think the average
>> "take down" requester does not know how things work for the RIR/LIR. I can
>> see a problem in a country where the law is in favor of "take down"
>> requester. At least in Sweden, we see this much like National Land Survey.
>> They have the responsibility for registering property, but not the
>> operational responsibility for what happens there. If this is a problem for
>> the RIPE region at large, I think we have to consider the proposal again.
> To be honest I really don't see how this is substantially different to open
> registration for any other details.  The principals of open registration
> are very well established and we all agree that it is a good thing.

Agreed. I'm a firm believer in openness and transparency. This was just 
a reservation that if the proposal don't get approved I think we need to 
have another discussion about it. Sorry if that wasn't clear. I need to 
know the sponsoring LIR for my daily work.

/bengt