On 28 Mar 2012, at 20:53, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Fearghas McKay:
On 28 Mar 2012, at 18:57, Florian Weimer wrote:
Can RIPE NCC rely on the UK Register of Companies to validate requests which aim to establish a UK business as a LIR?
SOCA seems to suggest that the answer is "no". This is disturbing.
Well since you don't need to be a registered company to hold LIR assets then that is hardly surprising that Companies House is not the ultimate source of all knowledge in this case.
True, but a signature from an officer of a registered company should be sufficient (together with the signup fee). If it's not, there's something seriously wrong with the registration procedure.
You miss the point - there are many different kinds of commercial organisation structures that are not Limited/PLC/Limited by Guarantee companies that can hold LIR assets and be members. Why should I be a Limited/PLC/Limited by Guarantee company just to hold LIR membership or an ASN/PA/PI/etc space ? Just because SOCA finds it makes their life harder doesn't mean the whole commercial world has to change to make their lives a bit easier. Why do you find it disturbing that we can have different corporate structures ? All registered of course otherwise they would struggle to do business :-) f