On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 1:11 PM Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no> wrote:
Hi Jan,
Hi Tore, skipping your blatant misconception of what constitutes a "conspiracy theory" ...
Continously appealing to RIPE NCC as the authority of policy and policy interpretation is not a good thing.
The RIPE NCC is the secretariat of the RIPE Community and is delegated the task of implementing and enforcing the RIPE Community policies, as well as to providing training to the LIRs on how to operationalise said policies. If that is not an authority worth paying attention to, I do not know what is.
After all, any LIR which prefers the RIPE NCC interpretation of the policy in this regard is may simply adhere to it and act accordingly, and this is commonly done today. Thus the RIPE NCC's interpretation of the policy – mistaken or not – ends up becoming the (de facto) way the policy is implemented anyway.
This statement basically renders the point of a policy working group moot. -- Jan