Brilliant. Thank you emphasizing this very simple point that others on the list pretend to behave as if they don't understand it. On 08/17/16 13:31, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
3) Even RIPE NCC legal staff recognize that it would be the height of silly absurdity for them to call in the Dutch police, or Interpol whenever they get snookered by some clever Russian or Egyptian, which happens these days with disturbing regularity due to the fact that RIPE NCC never actually checks anybody's bona fides themselves until*after* some schmo like me raises a stink, by which time it's too late, the number resources have already been allocated, the overt criminality has already begun, and RIPE's own rules require a laborious, lengthy, tedious, and exceptionally time-consuming multi-month process just for them to be able to take back what they should never have handed out in the first place.
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