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Re: European Nanog?

  • From: william(at)elan.net
  • Date: Mon Sep 13 07:20:39 2004

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Arnold Nipper wrote:

> As already noted here a couple of times:
> 
> 	RIPE != RIPE NCC
> 
> Although MERIT is organizing NANOG meetings, no one would say: MERIT ==
> NANOG. Right?

Not quite. As far as I'm concerned, NANOG is part of MERIT activities.
And while I'm not certain if NANOG is actually legally organized in any 
way, if it is, it is probably considered to be subsidiary of MERIT

So while NANOG != MERIT, what we have is that NANOG < MERIT

Similarly while EOF != RIPE NCC, it is part of it, i.e. EOF < RIPE

I'm not so certain about RIPE NCC to RIPE relationship though, I suspect
that RIPE NCC is a subset (RIR services or) larger RIPE organization that
is involved in other activities, i.e. RIPE NCC < RIPE

So in this case both EOF and RIPE NCC being subsets of same larger set,
these subsets may intersect (or one subset maybe contained in another or 
equal to it) but we do not know about it without additional data and can
not make logical conclusion that EOF < RIPE NCC. All we can can say is 
both EOF and RIPE NCC represent organized activity of RIPE existing in 
parallel and possibly sharing in some parts of the activity.

But of course, overall funding for RIPE still comes from RIPE NCC, so 
while other activities of RIPE are not necessarilty parts of RIPE NCC
they are still funded by it :)

-- 
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
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