Hello, On Thu, Sep 15, 2016, at 09:46, Carlos Friacas wrote:
On Thu, 15 Sep 2016, Bastien Schils wrote:
"We're an independent, not-for-profit membership organisation that supports the infrastructure of the Internet through technical coordination in our service region. Our most prominent activity is to act as the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) providing global Internet resources and related services (IPv4, IPv6 and AS Number resources) to members in our service region."
It clearly states "providing global Internet resources and related services" and not "maintaining a DB".
Isn't maintaining a DB part of "related services"?
Yes maintaining a database is part of *related* services, which disqualifies RIPE NCC from being "a big fat phone book of who has what IP space. Nothing more, nothing less." as stated previously. Among other things, RIPE NCC does NOT register whatever members request in the database (like "hey, I'd like to register 185.192.0.0/10 to myself"). Until some future GM decides that resource allocation is no longer an activity (of governments mess up with the IANA->RIR system), RIPE NCC does distribute Internet-related numbering resources.