With 8800 customers, well - it simply means RIPE NCC needs to learn from, say, a bank manager, on what'd happen to him if he sanctioned a bank loan on the strength of the same weird and wonderful paperwork with which RIPE NCC ocasionally sanctions a /16 or larger.

"We are not the X police" doesn't quite gel with the fiduciary responsibility they have as trustees of a globally shared, finitely available resource.

On Saturday, January 19, 2013, peter h wrote:

On Saturday 19 January 2013 17.24, Sander Steffann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > This is a list of RIPE assigned pi / pa netblocks that are in spamhaus .. quite a few in the past few days, large ones too. Mostly romania / eastern europe, for one reason or the other..
> >
> > http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings/ripe
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> Being listed by Spamhaus is not a reason to revoke address space. There is no such policy in the RIPE region, and I think it is very unlikely that the whole RIPE community will agree to let one organisation veto anybody's right to address space. There have been incidents in the past where Spamhaus listings were very controversial.
>
> Now if anyone sees that there has been fraud, people lying to the RIPE NCC, people lying about their need for address space, etc. then that is in violation of the RIPE policies and the RIPE NCC Service Contract. In those cases the RIPE NCC can act and has the mandate of the members to act. With 8800+ members it is not possible to audit all of them all the time, so helpful information about fraud are very helpful for the RIPE NCC to target their audits.
>
To be listed as spammer may in itself not be a reason to revoke addresses. But it should be enough to
start an investigation, for instance mail the address"owners" and ask for a comment. If they
cannot be reached then revokation comes closer ....
> Cheers,
> Sander
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