[ncc-services-wg] Proposal: Reduction of RIPE-NCC Actvities

> There are activities of the NCC that can be discussed if they are to be 
> considered relevant or not. However, what current activities of the 
> RIPE NCC do you feel that are not "necessary to the continued well 
> being of the Internet"?

an interesting question, to which i have no answer.  i would note
the contrast between the four current rirs, with arin being very
bare-bones address allocation, lacnic adding more educational
outreach as they perceive a need in their region, apnic which does
more infrastructure and more outreach work, and ripe/ncc which has
major branches into representing isps in policy fora, doing r&d,
etc.

to be clear, my personal issues with the current ripe/ncc is *not*
with the address allocation bureaucratic process.  not having used
it recently, i have no experience on which to base any statement,
and i gather that considerable work has continued to go into making
this basic and critical process work.

my issue is with ripe/ncc (and apnic) forgetting that the internet
is a cooperative venture, making war with icann (with whom folk
know i have major doubts, and towards which my comment on lawers
and politicans replacing a part-time computer scientist were
directed (some years ago)), naively aligning with the itu (apnic
has joined the itu), and non-cooperation with the ietf.  it is how
these policies are made and decided in back rooms that tip me over
the edge.  it is not my enemies who make me most frustrated, it is
my friends.

randy