Sascha - On 10.06.2015 14:17, Sascha Luck [ml] wrote:
RIPE is an open community of people and organisations who are interested in IP-based networking (and related matters), mostly in Europe and the Middle East. It does not have a legal identity. RIPE works by consensus. It does not vote. It does not have any formal membership structure and therefore does not have members in the same way that RIPE NCC has members. These things are deliberate.
What is missing here is that the RIPE NCC, and its members, are bound by the policies that RIPE comes up with. In reality, this means that < 10 people on a mailing list (some of whom may or may not be sockpuppets) decide how ~12,000 members have to deal with the RIPE NCC.
this is correct. As all and any of these ~12k RIPE NCC members - or rather their representatives as Local/Regional Internet Citizens - can influence the PDP process. If they do not wish to do so - that is also fine. But this would make any comment moot that the NCC members are not or cannot be heard. Best, -C.