No-no. It is NOT "...independent of which country Crimea belongs to". It is VERY important: Crimea belongs to Ukraine. And Dutch authorities recognize Crimea as Ukraine land. Dutch authorities said about it on the hoghest level: in the United Nations Security Council. So, there are no variants for Dutch government, but only one: Crimea is Ukraine. Dot. I think RIPE MUST NOT accept Russian issued papers for Ukraine based companies. Otherwise RIPE should start accept any country issued papers for any entities. For example: Ukrainian based companies with Panama issued papers. -- Dmitriy Zemlyanoy. DeltaHost. http://deltahost.com Sander Steffann писал 2014-07-28 23:58:
Hi Max,
I understand your frustration, but this is not the place to fight this fight. The RIPE NCC has both Russian and Ukrainian members. A member can be an existing entity under either Russian or Ukrainian law. The location of the entity doesn't matter in this case. A company can have its office in Crimea, independent of whether it is registered as a Russian or a Ukrainian company and independent of which country Crimea belongs to. The RIPE NCC can only deal with if an entity exists.
Compare it to this: if I would go and live in Belgium I can be a member as a Dutch personal entity while having a Belgian address.
But this is getting severely off-topic for this mailing list, so let's stop this discussion here and focus on address policy again :)
Cheers, Sander