Nick On 27/09/16 17:16, Nick Hilliard wrote:

Nigel Titley wrote:

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Well, most of the time you don't have to "convince the RIPE NCC board to implement it". The only time that the board would refuse to implement policy (and this has never happened to my knowledge)

<ahem> ASN fees.

That, I believe, was put to a membership vote.

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would be if such a policy were to impact the commercial viability of the NCC, and then we have a fiduciary duty to not allow it. Otherwise... go ahead.

I'd suggest that a landgrab like this would attract law suits.

I think you might be right, and I'd expect that it would be flagged up by legal at the Impact Analysis stage of the process. Nigel