* Shane Kerr:
Contrariwise, the RIPE NCC is unable to unwilling to change its role from a fundamentally administrative to one that involves setting network usage policies.
Certain network usage policies. They do seem to care if you use IPv6 PI space to connect customers. 8-)
Plus it is hard to get the RIPE NCC membership to support mechanisms which cost them money and limit their freedoms.
Is it? As a first approximation, RIPE NCC only executes the policies set by the RIPE community. Their function is mostly bureaucratic, so as an organization, RIPE NCC inevitably has a tendency to acquire additional responsibilities, diversify and grow. This is especially important because we're approaching the end of address scarcity.
On the 3rd hand, some people in the RIPE community (including me) also feel that it is very, very difficult to define what the required actions would be in the case of reported abuse. This reporting mechanism itself might indeed be a source of abuse (rivalries between companies could be fought by each accusing the other of hosting criminal activity).
Yes, that's certainly a problem.
Maybe it makes sense to make something like a web forum for each allocated resource, or perhaps for the organization responsible for each.
We'd have to find someone host such a site in the U.S. because otherwise, the hoster will be responsible for such user-generated content. There are also privacy issues. Alternatively, with heavy moderation, the net result would not be that much different from Spamhaus' ROKSO list, would it?