24 Mar
2019
24 Mar
'19
11:53 a.m.
On 23 Mar 2019, at 3:12, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
These are the land deeds of the Internet. And they have long since been accepted as such by virtually everyone.
Precisely. I believe that a condition for their continued acceptance as such is that the RIPE NCC avoid amalgamating quasi-judicial functions to its "land-registry" function. In my country, we have an agency called the Registry of Deeds, which performs a land-registry function and acts as an agency of record. I expect that most other countries have each their own agency with similar functions. I am not aware of any which also has a judicial or disciplinary function. Best regards, Niall O'Reilly