If it was just spammers with large netblocks, great. There is no shortage of PI / PA netblocks which are used to host, for example, malware c&c. While what you say is more than probably correct, it is strange that spammers seem to prefer the RIPE region, and working through some LIRs in eastern europe, to acquiring large netblocks from any other RIR region in the world. On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Gert Doering <gert@space.net> wrote:
As long as "the spammers" are providing correct corporate documents, and operate within their legal framework, I don't see any way to *deny* them IPv4/IPv6 addresses. "Sending lots of mail" might be a perfectly legitimate business in some country in the RIPE NCC service region, and as such, "need to use IP addresses for my legitimate business" is appropriate for a needs-based allocation system...
-- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)