On 12 okt 2005, at 15.45, Randy Bush wrote:
Put another way. Even _with_ these requirements we have a hard time knowing who owns what address space...
this illogic does not at all show that these requirements improve that knowledge.
e.g.
even with invading iraq and murdering tens of thousands of human beings, we have a hard time knowing who owns what address space.
Whatever you tried to say went passed me here...:-(
your sentence implied and relied on an assertion of relationship which you failed to justify. you have no idea if these requirements have helped or hindered knowledge of address space ownership or anything else.
I was arguing that as the LIRs are the ones that (in the majority of the cases) submit the data to the RIPE DB, and more often are also listed instead of their customers (DSL blocks), and they have a documented relationship with the NCC, proving the identity of the LIR will help (partly) securing the trail to the owner of and allocated addressblock. In asking for the papers this does help the NCC to establish that trail. Which I believe is a good thing. - kurtis -