I Matthew Brown, would like to request that there be some sort of action, to allow the ripe database managers to contact ISP(s) when someone reports incorrect or outdated information.
Good luck - and I mean that; I hope you succeed, though at this point I don't really expect it. I've gone a few rounds with RIPE myself on that issue; they appear to want the authority of "owning" (and being paid for the subdelegation of) address space without the concomitant responsibility. Not surprising, of course; lots of people would rather pocket the money and duck the responsibility. The real problem is that ICANN/IANA lets them get away with it, and I see that (that the top of the governance pyramid does not impose responsibility on those to whom it delegates authority - and I don't mean just RIRs; the same problem recurs with domains) as the fundamental problem that is killing today's net with abusers and abuses. Any system with mismatches between authority and responsibility grows abuses, until one of three things happens: (1) the mismatch is corrected, (2) the system collapses, or (3) in mild cases, an equilibrium is reached, with the level of abuse concomitant with the level of mismatches. In the case of Internet governance, the mismatch appears to be total, so (3) is out, and there appears to be no will whatever to do (1), so I expect the abuses to simply grow until the net collapses from them. The only reason I'm not just standing back and watching it happen is that I'd like to have a usable Internet myself in the near term - during the time it would take for the current system to collapse and shake out something less broken. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B