Colleagues
The process for selecting chairs and terms of office is documented here
https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/wg/active-wg/db/database-wg-chair-selection-process
Accordingly, Denis's term of office expires at RIPE 86. If anyone is
interested in joining the team please contact db-wg-cha
Colleagues
A question for the legal team at the RIPE NCC. Would a simple purpose,
as suggested below, address all the concerns you had about the use of
the "geofeed:" attribute and allow you to remove any restrictions you
felt were necessary when it was introduced?
cheers
denis
co-chair DB-WG
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Dear RIPE DB-WG,
Hope this email finds you in good health!
Please find my comment below, inline...
Thanks.
Le 13/04/2023 à 11:29, denis walker via db-wg a écrit :
Colleagues
A question for the legal team at the RIPE NCC. Would a simple purpose,
as suggested below, address all the concerns you
IANAL and try not to play one on the net. but ...
my reading of why NCC legal has problems with the geofeed: attribute is
that they see the NCC as legally liable for the content of the geofeed
data file to which it points.
this concern may be based, for example, in the courts finding pirate bay
Hi Randy, Sylvain
IANAL either but I understood the main legal issue was that there is
no defined purpose to use the RIPE Database for geolocation services.
So whatever is in that referenced file is not covered by a valid
purpose. We have had the "geoloc:" attribute for a long time. The
value of t
