Salut, On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 08:27:24AM +1000, Dariusz Margas wrote:
I don't see it that way. Law is being changed every day. Any law can be changed so why not allocation policy? Is it different then, say, acts governing banks? If you fulfill current requirements for anything ATM (say to be a bank) then you can do this thing (say you can be a bank). Next year you may need to fulfill different requirements to persist.
That may be true, but the validity of these requirements is actually laid out through legislation. RIPE, however, is not a governmental body or democratically legitimated (legitimation only by members doesn't really count), so what we're debating here is the policy of an organization, not a law. In that case it is difficult to change a policy which previously held unlimited validity. If there was however a clause defining that the policy may be superseeded at any time, then it can be debated that it was the responsibility of the sponsoring LIR to make corresponding contracts. Kind regards, Tonnerre -- SyGroup GmbH Tonnerre Lombard Solutions Systematiques Tel:+41 61 333 80 33 Güterstrasse 86 Fax:+41 61 383 14 67 4053 Basel Web:www.sygroup.ch tonnerre.lombard@sygroup.ch