Hi Denis, Op 4 nov. 2015, om 18:17 heeft denis <ripede...@yahoo.co.uk> het volgende geschreven: > On 04/11/2015 15:32, Sascha Luck [ml] wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 12:05:28AM +0000, ripede...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: >>> the sponsoring LIR should be restricted to an LIR in the same >>> geographical/political/language area as the end user resource >>> holder. Otherwise it could render the whole notion of an LIR >>> validating their sponsored user's data pointless. >> >> IANAL, but I can't imagine that such a rule would even be legal >> under EU legislation. Common Market, remember? Considering that the >> Internet doesn't recognise any borders or >> political blocs, this is one of the more outlandish suggestions >> even for this forum. > > That may well be right, but if the sponsor cannot understand the language of > the resource holder the validation may not be very effective.
Don't mix up "geographical/political/language area" with "ability to understand". It's not uncommon for organisations that do business in a certain area to have staff that understands the geography/politics/language. You have even worked for one for many years :) Cheers, Sander