Hi, On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 01:38:15PM +0200, Janos Zsako wrote: > > and only under the > > auspices and authority of RIPE itself? > > RIPE does not have "authority" over RIPE NCC, it is the members. In many > cases the RIPE community and the RIPE NCC membership overlap, but not > always.
I can't let this sentence go totally unchallenged :-) - the relationship
between RIPE, the RIPE NCC members, and the RIPE NCC is a bit more
complicated than that.
In "organizational matters" (money, board, ...), only the (paying) members
of the NCC decide by matter of the annual general meeting, and voting.
In *policy* matters, like "under which rules does the RIPE NCC hand out
IP addresses", the RIPE *community* decides, by following the policy
development process the community has given itself. The NCC acts as the
secretariat that manages the resources according to these policies.
The policy development, of course, takes into account feedback from the
RIPE NCC and the RIPE NCC board, to avoid creating policies that would
endanger the stability of the RIPE NCC, or have unexpectedly high
monetary consequences ("needing 100 new employees").
Gert Doering
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