In message <fbc7a33c-98ba-18ca-dd70-7ab6d8ee3979@ripe.net>, Ingrid Wijte <ingrid@ripe.net> wrote:
We can confirm that exactly three memberships have been terminated so far in 2016 for non-financial reasons, and one further case is currently in process. We terminated four memberships in 2015. It is worth noting that so far we have never terminated a membership following a report from an external party these terminations were the result of our own investigations regarding the submission of false or fraudulent information that were initiated after suspicious member activity.
Ms. Wijte, I can't thank you enough for following up on my queries. The information you've provided will be really very helpful, I think. Further to this whole discussion, I have just a couple of additional brief question about these seven fully completed non-financial member terminations that you have processed in 2015 and so far in 2016: First, among these seven completed non-financial member terminations, can you state how many of those cases involved members who were or are "natural persons"? Second, I am looking at this document which seems to be the current version of the RIPE Standard Service Agreement: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-626 I am specifically looking at Section 9, "Term and Termination". I am not an attorney, so I hope that you can help me to correctly interpret that Section. In your opinion, would it be accurate to say that following the termination of one of these RIPE Standard Service Agreements RIPE NCC does not have any sort of ongoing "duty of care" with respect to the terminated member, I mean, you know, AFTER the termination? (I do not see anything in Section 9 that calls for any kind of ongoing duty which is binding upon either party, after termination of The Agreement, but perhaps I just missed something.) Thanks again for your input. I certainly find it most helpful, and I believe that others here will too. Regards, rfg