In message <20160822231248.GD93886@cilantro.c4inet.net>, "Sascha Luck [ml]" <aawg@c4inet.net> wrote:
It also concerns a contractual issue between the RIPE NCC and the member(s) in question. This is not the business of the RIPE community or any WG (other than, perhaps, ncc-services)
Sorry. Just a small clarification. I just now realized that I have been remiss in not clarifying, up front, that I certainly neither want nor expect RIPE NCC to release any data that might threaten or in any way impinge upon the legitimate national security concerns or interests of any nation, be it either within the RIPE geographic zone, or elsewhere. Thus, if it could be easily established, e.g. by consulting public sources, that any one of these seven terminated member entities was or is in fact just a front company for, e.g. NSA, GCHQ, BND, FSB, Mossad, or any other such entity, then I would be the last person in the world to either ask for or even wish for RIPE NCC to disclose any information at all in any such case or cases, and I would be the first to support any assertion of a "National Security Exception" at any such time as RIPE NCC elects to assert such a special exception. I mean after all, we *are* all fully supportive of the covert activities undertaken by these sorts of national security entities on our behalf, aren't we? Regards, rfg