HI, On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 09:36:38AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
BTW Gert - never mind the "spam is illegal or not" type argument here. Let us try it another way.
Does the average russian botmaster who submits paperwork for a new /20 say he needs the /20 to host his botnet c&cs?
Or something else entirely?
In other words, besides all the ranting about how you are not the document police so you can't possibly verify the registrant .. does that document policing argument also extend to not verifying all the weird and wonderful stories about media streaming, colo etc that the botmaster spins RIPE NCC in his allocation paperwork?
So how exactly do you verify business *plans*? We've seen enough customers come up with wonderful ideas about their Internet application, requesting a /22 or similar, only to figure out half a year later that their idea wasn't so good in the end, they have only used 5 IP addresses, and are nearly bancrupt. So how can you see at application time whether something is a cool idea that might or might not work out (but you wouldn't know until half a year later) or is a blatant lie (which you wouldn't see unless they start using the space and complaints come in)? Besides... sending mail *is* a perfectly acceptable usage of IP addresses. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (89) 32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279