[ncc-services-wg] 2012-08 New Draft Document and Impact Analysis Published (Publication of Sponsoring LIR for Independent Number Resources)

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 02:33:08PM +0200, Marco Schmidt wrote:
>You can find the full proposal and the impact analysis at:
>
>    https://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2012-08

To recap: my main point of contention with this proposal is that it
creates a perception of responsibility of the sponsoring LIR for the
actions of the end user - which does not exist beyond keeping the
ripedb updated. Thus it creates an attack surface for those who see it
as their duty to keep the internet free of <insert agenda here>.
Which will make it hard to impossible for a controversial or otherwise
inconvenient independent resource holder (or applicant) to find or keep
a sponsoring LIR. 

Impact Statement:

"During implementation of this policy, the RIPE NCC will contact those
organisations acting as sponsoring LIRs to notify them of this change
and allow them time to react appropriately, by reviewing their
sponsoring LIR agreements and terminating any they do not want to be
associated with (or even all of them)."

The wording is ambiguous and may refer to resources "brought in" under
2007-01/Phase III, but it can be read as if a sponsoring LIR will get 
an opportunity to break a sponsorship contract with an inconvenient 
end-user, thus orphaning them before an attack even happens. 

I would ask the NCC to please clarify the intention of this sentence,
and note that 
https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/resource-management/independent-resources/independent-assignment-request-and-maintenance-agreement

does specify a notice period of 3 months for termination of the IR
contract, otherwise we're looking at a case of Breach of Contract.

For the record and the avoidance of doubt: I still oppose this proposal 
for the above mentioned reason.



Kind Regards,
Sascha Luck


>
>We encourage you to read the draft document text and send any comments
>to ncc-services-wg at ripe.net before 20 May 2013.
>
>Regards
>
>Marco Schmidt
>Policy Development Office
>RIPE NCC
>
>