Re: Shaping the Future of ICP-2: Community Input Extended to December 2024

[Leo Vegoda <leo () vegoda org>]

Hi Bill,

On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 at 22:01, William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wrote:

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> 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