Dear address-policy-wg, Ms. Brown, At present, RIPE NCC keeps extensive notes of all resources and actors involved in each direct assignment and allocation. This includes, for example, detailed ticket histories and revisions of the WHOIS database. This provides RIPE NCC with visibility into systemic abuse attempts of services it offers and enables it to challenge such attempts. Wouldn't 2012-01 without a uniform framework across all RIRs that includes provisions for extensive information sharing eliminate this already weak checkpoint by essentially making each RIR see half of each story? At the extreme, it might even encourage the flow of resources from "better informed" toward "less informed" RIRs, while potentially opening new loopholes and avenues for abuse and resource hoarding - especially when it may have increasing financial rewards. -- Respectfully yours, David Monosov On 04/02/2012 03:39 PM, Marco Schmidt wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

A new RIPE Policy Proposal has been made and is now available for discussion.

You can find the full proposal at:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2012-01/

We encourage you to review this proposal and send your comments to <address-policy-wg@ripe.net> before 30 April 2012.

Regards

Marco Schmidt on behalf of the Policy Development Office RIPE NCC