[address-policy-wg] 2014-13 New Policy Proposal (Allow AS Number Transfers)

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:42:39AM +0100, Tore Anderson wrote:
>> What safeguards, if any, do you propose to prevent this?
>
>None. I think that having the LIRs be accountable to the community in a
>transparent fashion is much a better alternative than shrouding
>everything in secrecy. There might be uninformed people or trolls
>crying foul based on public information, but with everything out in the
>open, the more informed amongst us is in a much better position to
>point out that there is no foul (assuming there is none).

Well then, please publish all your shopping receipts, in order
for the community to offer you helpful advice on whether you need
all this stuff and what you could use instead.

Seriously though, this I cannot agree with. If you throw enough
shit, some of it will stick, whether you've done anything wrong
or not. So, while I support the goal of the policy, I'll oppose
it as long as this requirement is in there. 

>As an aside, I was puzzled to hear Andrea (iirc) say at the mic that
>the identity of the Russian organisation that held 100 ASNs was
>confidential. That information should be right there out in the open in
>the RIPE database, should it not? How could it possibly be confidential?

I'm sure with some effort this information could be extracted
from the ripedb. I agree, though, that the collated information
should be confidential and I'm glad to hear that the NCC 
treats it as such.

rgds,
Sascha Luck