Hi, On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 02:55:52PM +0000, anfernandez@lavanguardia.es wrote:
When RIPE is actually a judge that decided to protecting internet piracy. You can be sure that RIPE will open an expedient to any LIR that do not pay its fee, but you can keep waiting to see RIPE opening an expedient to investigate bad use of internet by one of their associated LIRs.
It should be made totally clear that spamming, pirating movies, and so on is a legitimate usage of IP addresses IF THE JURISDICTION OF THE LIR IN QUESTION PERMITS IT. We might not *like* it, but if it's legal in, say, Romania to send out large amounts of e-mail, attacking the RIPE NCC for providing IP addresses to a LIR in .ro is not the way to fix it. Now, we all might agree that SPAM is evil, and pirating moviez is also evil. What about encouraging political debate? China might have a stance here. What about pictures of men kissing men? Russia might not like that. Things that are totally inacceptable for some parties are things that other parties want protected by freedom of speech, or freedom of doing business. So, the NCC can, will and *should* not act on "things people do not like" - it will (and does) act if being lied to, or if a judge decides that a LIR's business is illegal. In this particular case, I wonder why nobody is yelling at the upstream who is happily forward packets for that AS... due dilligence at accepting customer prefixes would have easily caught the announcements. (Yes, I understand that I'm now officially part of the problem, as I'm obviously not willing to do everything technically possible to stop particular sorts of badness) 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 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279