On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 03:21:50PM +0000, Sam Bradford wrote:
I'm writing for your opinions, suggestions, and comments regarding updating the RIPE database with assignments made for broadband (xDSL) customers. As you may or may not be aware, ADSL is now being offered in the UK, which has very strict data protection laws. We offer ADSL services as a NATted
IP addresses and data related to them is international resource. I don't think you should apply any law in UK when we talk about RIPE(.int) resources.
I am afraif I would have to disagree with this. There are several examples that national law (in my case Norwegian Law) applies to my activites on the internet as long as I am a citizen of a country conducting business in that country. (even tough my serveres or my data may be somewere else.) My understanding of norwegian privacy laws I would be required to ask for explicit permission from the individuals to publish this data on the internet, and I am not allowed to publish such information if the individual refuses. (I assume that this is slightly different for information related to companies, but this is strictly speaking nothing I have checked with any lawyers.) So if I were to offer home networks with routable addresses to the consumer market I would not be able to runmy business unless I am alowed not to register private persons as contacts persons in the RIPE database. My common sensebased approach to this is that an ISP should be able to registere theese addesses with admin-c tech-c just as they register dialup modem addresses. Thet we have changed the service from offering a dial on demand for one Ip address to a permanent connection with a couple addresses should not _change_ this policy. (Thats what I personaly did when we launched CATV Internet services in 96/97) If anyone feels that is impossible under the current policy, I propose we change that policy to allow ISPs to respect their customers right to privacy. I do not think we should force ISPs to offer NAT based products trough policy. -hph