I personally have no position on this Richard Cox matter, because I have not been privvy to any of the interactions that led up to the current/ recent bruhaha, and also because my position, even if I had one, would be largely irrelevant to anything, because I neither own nor control any assets which fall within RIPE's jurisdiction (and thus I have no standing to have a position anyway). But I did feel compelled to make one brief comment about something my friend Suresh just said... In message <AANLkTimaLn=Uboczx-ZpbR7fJg4V=aHibxQvoH3eXFC8@mail.gmail.com>, Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
Second - the mantra, meme, fallacy etc of the "we are not the XYZ police" that I keep hearing cited. It would be fun indeed if a bank manager sanctioned a loan for say a quarter of a million dollars (lets say comparable to an allocation for a /15) and then baldly state that he's not the document police ..
Suresh did not include any emoticon which would help to clarify what he actually intended here (ironic humor perhaps?), but I just wanted to clarify, in case anybody hasn't been paying attention for the past two years, that Suresh's analogy about irresponsible bank managers making quarter-million-dollar loans (AND paying little attention to the niceties of the corresponding real estate title documentation) has indeed been rife of late. http://www.helium.com/items/1989991-what-is-robo-signing-foreclosure-mortgag... Anyway, (and perhaps this was the point that Suresh was attempting to make) I am persuaded that missing and/or incomplete documentation of the title to _Internet_ (IP) real estate is no more likely to produce acceptable results than those produced by a zillion missing (meatspace) real estate title documents. Regards, rfg