If it will be decided that the best solution to serve Russian speaking community is to create separate RIR (istead of employing some Russian speaking hostmasters at RIPE NCC, creating separate list like hostmaster-ru@ripe.net and so on),
While it's probably a good idea to continue the RIPE NCC tradition of employing staff from different regions and with diverse linguistic background, I do *not* agree that "splitting" the RIPE NCC along the lines of language(s) is useful. Btw, this statement is not to be seen as specifically aiming at the Russian language! The very same point holds true for say German or French or Spanish. What we want to preserve across the whole Internet and in particular amongst the registries, is exchange of information, sharing of knowledge and harmonisation of procedures. In the Internet of today, we happen to use the English language for that purpose. (...discussing the reasons for that is probably outside the scope of this discussion :-). Wilfried. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wilfried Woeber : e-mail: Woeber@CC.UniVie.ac.at Computer Center - ACOnet : Vienna University : Tel: +43 1 4277 - 140 33 Universitaetsstrasse 7 : Fax: +43 1 4277 - 9 140 A-1010 Vienna, Austria, Europe : RIPE-DB (&NIC) Handle: WW144 --------------------------------------------------------------------------