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Carlos Friaças
cfriacas at fccn.pt
Tue Aug 24 23:33:40 CEST 2021
(please see below) On Tue, 24 Aug 2021, Gert Doering wrote: > 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. Hi Gert, Leo, All, This is perfectly understandable. But i guess the issue is dramatically different -- it's about knowing ** WHO ** is really the ISP, i.e. which company from which jurisdiction. Cheers, Carlos > 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 >
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