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Gert Doering
gert at space.net
Tue Aug 24 21:43:44 CEST 2021
Hi, On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 11:26:12AM -0700, Leo Vegoda wrote: > I have always understood that the confidentiality requirement was > intended to apply to any business information supplied to justify an > allocation of resources and not the outcome, which is published in the > RIPE Database and elsewhere. I understood that the goal was to assure > the businesses operating networks that chatty staff would not gossip > about what those businesses planned but had not announced. Leo has been around about as long as I have - and his understanding of the reasoning matches mine. Let me illustrate this a bit: "back in the days", ISPs were given IPv4 allocations based on network deployment *plans*. Like "we intend to expand to neighbouring country <x>, cities <a>, <b> and <c>, and we expect to have <z-1000> customers there by mid next year" - this sort of information is something I would not like my competitors to have, and thus I always found it reassuring that the NCC would not share these strategic details. The end result ("1.2.0.0/16 allocated to XYZ inc.") is - and needs to be - public, so some coarse information about growth plans is/was visible, but not the details. Gert Doering -- LIR contact since too many years -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard, Michael Emmer Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/attachments/20210824/c9625dbe/attachment.sig>
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