Hi Bill, On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 at 22:01, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote: [...]
2. I'm not convinced that the service regions should be limited by the ICP to non-overlapping geographic territories. Although I generally favor geographic restriction as a matter of practice, perhaps it would be better to require unanimous assent to permit an RIR to operate with an overlapping territory.
RIRs already register resources to organisations in other regions. The fact that many registrants of ASNs are from outside of the RIPE region has been discussed recent RIPE meetings. I asked RIR staff about this part of the text. They explained to me that this part of the text was not intended as a restriction on registering resources in another region. Instead, its goal was to ensure that an RIR cannot refuse to provide service to organisations based in a country within its own service region. I suggested that the language could be improved and they asked me to say so in a response to the consultation. So I did. I expect that more comments requesting clearer language would do no harm. Kind regards, Leo