Hi Janos and Larissa, zsako@3c-hungary.hu (Janos Zsako) wrote:
You are saying that we may not invent new authorization rules, as these are laid down by the law already (and may not be changed).
As long as there is no unified european law governing this, the RIPE NCC and all contracts it makes are by default governed by dutch law. There are cases where special contracts need to be made, governed by another country's law (e.g., russian federation). Nonetheless, as long as there is no such european general law that applies to the RIPE NCC, the RIPE NCC is free to create agreements that are legal under dutch law. What special laws any country within RIPE's region creates or doesn't is entirely irrelevant to the RIPE NCC's course _unless_ there is a special contract governed by that country's law. So, in order to follow Larissa's argument, the RIPE NCC would have to create special/different contracts for contractors from different countries, if the parties need the contract to be governed by that country's laws. I'm quite humble in legal matters, so if what I write above is crap, discard it. But to me the problem of international contracts breaks down to the simple thing of having an encompassing law or not. Yours, Elmar. -- "Hinken ist kein Mangel eines Vergleichs, sondern sollte als wesentliche Eigenschaft von Vergleichen angesehen werden." (Marius Fränzel in desd) --------------------------------------------------------------[ ELMI-RIPE ]---