Even though this will give the NCC a bit more work to do, I do support this proposal. One of the main reasons being that the allocations will remain to be properly registered and are thus accountable.
I disagree that this will make anyone more accountable. As long as addresses are in use on the Internet, tools such as traceroute make it possible to identify the source of traffic, and the organization which is actually using an IP address block. In fact, I am currently sorting out an issue with SAIX in South Africa announcing, and passing traffic for someone who is using one of our IP address ranges. The fact that our address range is correctly registered in ARIN's database did not stop someone from using it on the Internet, and the fact that the user is not in any RIR database, does not prevent us from solving the problem. In fact, I suspect that most companies don't even care to make the actual user of an IP address range accountable. If the next link in the chain is accountable, i.e. the upstream of this non-accountable IP address user, then the problem can be quickly resolved. Therefore, accountability is not necessary in all cases. At the same time, RIPE can only affect accountability very indirectly with correct database entries. The history of the RIPE database and other RIR databases shows that they don't have a big impact on accountability and they also do not have a great track record for accuracy. I just do not see a connection between greater (or lesser) accountability, and a more accurate (or less accurate) RIPE database. --Michael Dillon