In message <b8818ff52e5545a1b021c702e3a697d9@dlr.de>, Petra.Zeidler@dlr.de wrote:

Just for curiosities sake, are you this Ronald Guilmette? https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/ron-guilmette/

I am.

Otherwise: yes, there is no pan-European Operators Group. As far as I'm informed, despite its name, NANOG does not cover Mexico, so the idea of a NOG covering mostly the language area it's in is not that absurdly novel.

The NANOG list covers the geography of Quebec and many Caribbean nations as well. Note that all of the WHOIS records as well as 4 out of the 5 web sites of the 5 regional Internet registries (including www.ripe.net) are all written in English. I wonder if that indicates anything.

So reaching all European NOGs would be work, but it wouldn't be very useful work, since the people populating either RIPE lists or the NOG lists are usually not the ones that could decide to break contracts, unless the entity is not a very large one.

I think you are wrong about that. But it doesn't really matter. Occasionally, the opinions of the lower echelons of worker bees in any organization are in fact listened to. "It's everyone's duty to start the avalanche." -- Barley Blair (Sean Connery) -- The Russia House (1990) Regards, rfg