Dear Nigel!
May i clarify some things?
Did i get right, that "RIPE NCC is secretariat for community" is a fairy tale, told to RIPE Meetings newcomers? No, RIPE NCC is a membership association which carries out Network coordination activities on behalf of its membership and generally governed by policies formulated by the RIPE community.
And relations of RIPE NCC to RIPE Community are just 4 letters E I P R in the name? In practice no, as, except in extremely strange circumstances, the RIPE NCC conducts activities according to policies formulated by the RIPE community.
And Number Resources allocation in this region happens not on behalf of Community, but because of some kind of MoUs signed by Dutch association with American corporation owned by other American corporation? Completely incorrect.
And all those are official statements of the RIPE NCC Executive Board? No they are statements made by me, wearing my Chairman hat. I'm happy to take off the hat and make the statements as Nigel Titley, Internet
On 19/10/2017 10:56, Alexander Isavnin wrote: person at large, if it makes you happier. What Jim and I were both trying to say, and obviously something got lost in translation, is that ever since the PDP's inception the NCC has carried out the policies as formulated by the RIPE Community, without exception, even when this has cost the RIPE NCC membership considerable amounts of money. However, because we are bound by fiduciary duty (ie we mustn't do anything that's illegal under Dutch law) we *cannot* agree to do absolutely *anything* that might come out of the policy process. To take a ludicrous example, suppose the community asked us to sign an MOU with a Colombian drug cartel, something which under the PDP they could actually ask us to do, we would decline courteously. Nigel
Kind regards, Alexander Isavnin
There's probably no need to formalise the NCC-RIPE relationship with anything more than a sentence saying "The NCC (Board) will take account of the policies developed by RIPE whenever it deploys and operates services". ie The NCC listens to RIPE but isn't compelled to obey no matter what. Jim beat me to it (they obviously get up earlier North of The Border).
The NCC Board does of course take account of policies, and also comments on them as part of the evaluation process that the NCC does during policy development. In all cases up until now we have instructed the NCC to follow policy. However, as board members we have certain fiduciary duties which cannot be overridden by policy. Faced with a situation such as Jim describes we have two choices: not implement the policy or resign and hope that someone else agrees to carry the can.
Nigel Chairman RIPE NCC Board
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