3)  Even RIPE NCC legal staff recognize that it would be the height
         of silly absurdity for them to call in the Dutch police, or
         Interpol whenever they get snookered by some clever Russian or
         Egyptian, which happens these days with disturbing regularity
         due to the fact that RIPE NCC never actually checks anybody's bona
         fides themselves until *after* some schmo like me raises a stink,
         by which time it's too late, the number resources have already
         been allocated, the overt criminality has already begun, and RIPE's
         own rules require a laborious, lengthy, tedious, and exceptionally
         time-consuming multi-month process just for them to be able to
         take back what they should never have handed out in the first place.