Hi, On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 11:26:12AM -0700, Leo Vegoda wrote:
I have always understood that the confidentiality requirement was intended to apply to any business information supplied to justify an allocation of resources and not the outcome, which is published in the RIPE Database and elsewhere. I understood that the goal was to assure the businesses operating networks that chatty staff would not gossip about what those businesses planned but had not announced.
Leo has been around about as long as I have - and his understanding of the reasoning matches mine. Let me illustrate this a bit: "back in the days", ISPs were given IPv4 allocations based on network deployment *plans*. Like "we intend to expand to neighbouring country <x>, cities <a>, <b> and <c>, and we expect to have <z-1000> customers there by mid next year" - this sort of information is something I would not like my competitors to have, and thus I always found it reassuring that the NCC would not share these strategic details. The end result ("1.2.0.0/16 allocated to XYZ inc.") is - and needs to be - public, so some coarse information about growth plans is/was visible, but not the details. Gert Doering -- LIR contact since too many years -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard, Michael Emmer Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279