Subject: Re: [ncc-services-wg] NCC's reserves Date: Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 03:07:34PM +0100 Quoting Jim Reid (jim@rfc1035.com):
On 25 Apr 2014, at 10:23, Lindqvist Kurt Erik <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se> wrote:
We are currently in the odd situation that as we are seeing resources depleted, we are seeing the RIPE NCC growing larger than ever.
Indeed. It's decidedly odd. There must be some sort of alternate Parkinson's law which explains why the NCC's head count and budget increases as the number resources it manages get depleted.
However the NCC is not just what Daniel calls "a number factory". There are all these other services as well -- too many IMO -- and I think this WG might have some responsibility in that area. :-)
The need of managing the decreasing pool might involve an increased work effort per address block transferred between entities. Whenever I find that I'm up against organisational challenges from the NCC I go and read the first meeting minutes from something that could seem to be a completely different organisation: As a working title for the activities the meeting adopted the name RIPE (Reseaux IP Europeen). ... 7 Network Registration All participants agree that there should be some sort of registration of the networks taking part in the European IP net. This way any problems that may occur can be signaled to the responsible person. It was stressed that this registration activity is just a matter of keeping the registry up to date: in no way it should constitute some sort of authority. A 'whois' style of information service was suggested as a useful tool to access registry information. (Action: Anders Hillbo) Also a list of gateways should be created, describing which networks are authorised to use particular gateways. No formal policy statements were made and there should be no thresholds for organisations who wish to connect to the net, except for a description of the network and information about contact addresses to be entered into the registry. The need was recognised to write a document describing the ethics and acceptable use of the European IP network. (Action: all) What happened? -- Måns Nilsson primary/secondary/besserwisser/machina MN-1334-RIPE +46 705 989668 I am a traffic light, and Alan Ginzberg kidnapped my laundry in 1927!