On 18 Nov 2014, at 14:59, Rob Evans <r...@nosc.ja.net> wrote: > Isn't this really, as Romeo puts it, "an operational decision" for the RIPE > NCC?
Er no. It's a decision for the community which domain names it needs or wants to use to identify itself. After all the NCC should respond to the needs of the RIPE community and the NCC membership. It's an operational matter for the NCC how to register those domain names, which registrar(s) to use, provision the names, choose the name servers, etc, etc. YMMV. Nobody here knew about ripe.int until recently and it doesn't seem to be used. Since it does not appear to have community support -- for some definition of both community and support -- the case for retaining the domain is poor at best.
