On 25/02/2014 21:34, David Monosov wrote:
It's outstanding that the RIPE NCC has taken it upon itself to fulfill the community's wishes as set forth in 2007-01 with utmost care and competence, but I have sincere doubts that the people who championed 2007-01 envisioned it as means of turning the NCC into a databank of personal identity documents.
there are two separate issues to consider, firstly that the ripe ncc has a duty to authenticate PI holders to some degree of due diligence, and secondly how this is intertwined with the much more stringent legal requirements of resource certification. I don't see any particular reason not to accept post ident (and similar authentication schemes with legal recognition in their own countries) for the purposes of assignment of resources. OTOH I could see how the ripe ncc would have trouble making a claim of certification without unambiguous formal legal authentication via e.g. photocopies of ID documents, notarised endorsements, etc. Nick