Documentation suggestions (was: RIPE 29: reminder)
Marcel Schneider schneider at switch.ch
Thu Jan 22 17:40:04 CET 1998
... > How would the RIPE CENTR be any benefit from a legal standpoint? Someone > will come forward and say "What gov't or treaty organization granted you > authority?" RIPE CENTR would say IANA and we are back to square one. If > IANA can attain some legal status that would help us. Sure. Have no doubts that IANA is aware of this fact. We have been informed to hear more about it at the forthcoming RIPE meeting (by RIPE staff involved in negotiations with IANA). > I have scanned most > english rules for domains in Europe. Only Finland has its rules according > to the gov't. All the rest are NICs and academic organizations that put > together rules (there may be others that will have gov't legalized rules in > the future - but so far only Finland has taken that step - and they even > mention IANA!) > If the RIPE CENTR is to be of any benefit it first has to have some major > legal standing and not just our consensus (meaning those on this list). CORE seems to have found an answer. You know it better than me if it actually is one :). If yes, why not clone it ? > -Hank Marcel -------- Logged at Thu Jan 22 17:50:10 MET 1998 ---------
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