[ncc-services-wg] legal adress

On Wed, 10 Oct 2018, Nick Hilliard wrote:

> ROBINOT Stephane DCPJ SDLC wrote on 10/10/2018 10:23:
>> To me, legal adress is just a way to be assured that the official request 
>> are sent to the correct place
>
> At least in some jurisdictions, there would be issues about whether the legal 
> address is the correct place.  E.g. it might be a PO box which cannot receive 
> certified delivery post for a summons, or the home address of a director.  Or 
> it might be that there is no "legal address" at all because the entity is an 
> informally constituted organisation, or if it is legally constituted, it 
> might not be on the local company registration facility for various reasons 
> (e.g. instituted by act of parliament, etc).  Or it could be a natural 
> person.  These are all situations which crop up regularly in the UK and 
> Ireland.  No doubt in the other 70+ countries in the RIPE NCC service region, 
> there will be many other variations and complications.

Why the "70+ countries in the RIPE NCC service region" reference...?

There are also LIRs (i.e. RIPE NCC members) registered outside the service 
region, in case you haven't noticed :-))

Best Regards,
Carlos


> This is not an argument for or against the policy; merely an observation that 
> this is a more subtle issue than the proposal admits.
>
> Nick
>