Charging by local IRs

=  > Piet Beertema <Piet.Beertema at cwi.nl> writes:
=  >     
=  > Hyperlinking documents in a national language into some
=  > international document is pretty useless. 
=
=I do not agree. Someone local searching for the document 
=may find it through the international document.
=Why don't you let the user decide?

  While I do not want to comment on the usefulness of this approach - 
  I'm certainly worried with the logistics. How would you keep the links
  "healthy" in the long run and the referred-to documents up-to-date?
  
  . Either store the documents where they are maintained 
    --> broken links, eventually.

  . Or store the documents alongside with the parent doc at the RIPE-NCC
    --> non-trivial to make the access "secure" and at the same time
    resonably comfortable to ensure regular updates.

=  > The best
=  > compromise would be a short description in English of
=  > the procedures and policies, provided that is made very
=  > clear that said description does *not* formally take the
=  > role of the original documents.
=
=That would be excellent service o course.

  Nice to have, I agree.

  Otoh, I don't really understand the rationale to register a name in
  country when there is nobody available to cope with a local-language
  document...
  (Yes we keep getting such requests more frequently these days :-)

=Daniel

  Wilfried.
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