I think you're missing the point about what are policies in the RIRs.
Policies in each RIR are developed by the (global) community. I live in Madrid,
EU, my RIR is RIPE NCC, RIPE community, however, I contribute to policy making
process in all the regions (all the RIRs), even if I've no resources in any of
them.
Policies are not for the RIR employees, are for *anyone* that want to apply for
resources in a given RIR.
And that means that to apply for the resources you need to *read, understand
and agree* with those policies. If you don't agree with the policies, then you
send a policy proposal and it may be adopted by the community, but meanwhile,
you're bind to it if you obtain the resources.
I agree that the document that you mention will be nicer if it has a clear
publication date and a note that states "This is only a guideline valid at time
of publication and may not be complete neither accurate. The actual policies
apply.". However, you should note that this document has been done by NIC.BR,
they are non-native Spanish, non-native English, so they may have even used the
Portuguese translation of the policies, which again may be inaccurate (as far
as you try to translate something from one idiom to another, always there may
be missing details and inaccuracy).
(maybe there is some text like that in the document, I didn't read it word by
word)
And to complement that, as I previously said ... this document is NOT an
official LACNIC document in terms of policies. Is only a guideline. LACNIC only
translated it.
If I publish a document in Spanish about some rules that you wrote in Japanese,
and then you translate my document to Japanese even with my authorization, are
you responsible of the rules set by that document or the rules that will
actually apply are your original document rules?
El 22/1/21 12:19, "NANOG en nombre de Masataka Ohta"
<nanog-bounces+jordi.palet=consulintel...@nanog.org en nombre de
mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> escribió:
JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG wrote:
> Not at all.
>
> The "top" mandate of any RIR, in terms or resource allocation, is
> what the policies say.
Within LACNIC, yes, of course. LACNIC can specify some document
specifies the policy to be followed by all the employees of LACNIC.
However, that is a convention only valid locally within LACNIC.
That is, LACNIC can not enforce it to people who have looked at and
followed LACNIC statements stating otherwise.
So?
It should also be noted that you can't expect a Russian company
having some business in LACNIC region read document of LACNIC
not in English or Russian, which is why some reservation
statements I mentioned could have been essentially important.
Masataka Ohta
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