Per and all, Per Heldal wrote:
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 16:43 -0700, Jeffrey A. Williams wrote:
Florian and all,
I for one agree with your conclusion. I do have a question. Whom is doing the policing of RIPE's PI space/routing? Is that ICANN/IANA or is such policing done at all? Or are the LIR's supposed to do such policing themselves without oversight?
Policing is not so important in a regime where the reward for good behaviour is better than what can be achieved by breaking the rules. The community isn't big on penalties. That's why we're struggling so hard to avoid a situation that forces us to use a stick once we're out of carrots.
//per
Respectfully, I disagree in part. If no stick, carrots are less than useless as if bad behavior goes unchecked and unpunnished, errors and intentional bad behavior remains a threat and will continue to occur as history has already shown us. IP theft is now common place and on the rise as an example. Regards, Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 281k members/stakeholders strong!) "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" - Abraham Lincoln "Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by P: i.e., whether B is less than PL." United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947] =============================================================== Updated 1/26/04 CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng. INEG. INC. ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com My Phone: 214-244-4827