[ncc-services-wg] Policy proposal for services to legacy Internet resource holders

Hi,

earlier I muttered something about terminology in conjunction
with what we're actually discussing about the legacy resource
holders.  Daniel wrote:

   So what we have to decide as a community is: under which policies
   does the RIPE community allow legacy space holders to register
   their address space in the RIPE Internet Number registry. Nothing
   more, nothing less.

Now, first, as far as I've gathered, the RIPE Internet Number registry
is *not* the same as the RIPE database.  We even have a fine
informational document, ripe-508, with the title "The RIPE registry".
Is "The RIPE registry" and "the RIPE Internet Number registry" one and
the same?

Secondly, ripe-508 speaks about the data in "The RIPE registry", and
that document also talks about the legacy resources the RIPE NCC has
the record-keeping responsibility for, and mentions that this includes
Internet number resources which were assigned before the RIPE NCC was
(fully) established, and that these resources are already a part of
"The RIPE registry", tagged as "legacy".

A side question here would be whether a "complete" public view of "The
RIPE registry" is available in any manner?  The delegated-ripencc-
latest file in ftp.ripe.net:/pub/stats/ripencc/ does not list any
resources marked "legacy".

Unless someone is intentionally playing with words with the intent to
confuse, and "the RIPE registry" is separate and different from "The
RIPE Internet Number registry" (I doubt that's the case), this makes
me a little uncertain about what *exactly* it is we are discussing
when it comes to the handling of the legacy resources, because
according to ripe-508 the legacy resources used in the RIPE NCC
service region should already be registered in "The RIPE registry".

Can someone in authority please make an attempt to clear up this
particular source of confusion?

Best regards,

- Håvard