On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 12:24:13 +0000 "Sascha Luck [ml]" <aawg@c4inet.net> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 12:44:47PM +0200, ac wrote:
I frequently read someone saying "RIPE is not the Internet Police" (even I have said that a few times myself) but the hard truth is that any RIR has a duty to exercise administrative authority.
Only as far as it pertains to the registration of allocated/assigned resources. All membership of the RIPE NCC since its foundation was entered into with the understanding that the NCC is a *registry* not an *enforcer* and does not regulate the operation or behaviour of member networks. <snip>
exactly my point. for the purposes of discussing administrative authority and/or force, as it relates to abuse, we need to set aside 2019-03 specifically and focus on the core principles of administrative authority. do you agree that any registry has an administrative authority? any registry is an *enforcer* by default as the very act of registration implies force. (as, for example, a resource is assigned to you and not to me) how registration happens (the process), the criteria for registration, the criteria for de-registration, these are all examples of administrative authority. IF RIPE (or any RIR) should de-register/remove a resource registration it is acting administratively It is not forcing anyone to do anything, it is doing exactly that which it is supposed to be doing: Being a Registry.