How would you get these "papers" from the German authorities if you started the LIR in France? If you are a multinational corp., wouldn't your local holdings in France have some kind of FR legal identity associated with them? While steering clear of the Crimea issue, the question of legal identity is relevant to several number policy issues; e.g., in ARIN region we are currently considering this: https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2014_1.html -----Original Message----- From: address-policy-wg-bounces@ripe.net [mailto:address-policy-wg-bounces@ripe.net] On Behalf Of Stephane Bortzmeyer Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 6:31 AM To: Athina Fragkouli Cc: ncc-services-wg@ripe.net; address-policy-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [address-policy-wg] Crimea papers - Clarifying the RIPE NCC Legal Position On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:02:04PM +0200, Athina Fragkouli <athina.fragkouli@ripe.net> wrote a message of 21 lines which said:
Documents issued by national authorities are considered to be sufficient proof.
You did not reply to one of the questions raised in the thread: can a future member present papers from a national authority of another country? I start a LIR in France, can I present papers from the german authorities (should Germany issue them)?