Sergey, [ apologies for commenting on an old thread - I just got back from vacation ] At 2016-08-22 23:27:01 +0300 Sergey <gforgx@fotontel.ru> wrote:
As a representative of a RIPE member, LIR ru.fotontelecom, I'd like to express my full agreement with Ronald F. Guilmette that the information on terminated membership MUST be publicly available, otherwise it leads to conclusion that RIPE NCC is playing games with both membership and those abusers which they were receiving money from.
As a representative of a RIPE NCC member maybe you could bring this up with other RIPE NCC members in whatever forum you guys do that stuff? (I haven't ever been such a person so I don't know how it works.) I'm in favor of maximum transparency, but it seems like something outside of the scope of RIPE, and something that the RIPE NCC needs to sort out. :)
I fully understand that this is a serious accusation, but I can't find any other reason for RIPE NCC to justify obscuring this data.
If you just mean the names of the LIR with terminated memberships and (maybe) the dates of termination then I agree it makes sense if it is part of the public record as claimed by Ronald. I can imagine all kinds of reasons why additional data could be considered private. But again, this is something for RIPE NCC members to figure out! Cheers, -- Shane