Sascha Luck <lists-ripe@c4inet.net> wrote:
Attempts to establish the RIR as a censorship authority do damage to the RIR and its community.
You have an interestingly pervasive definition of "censorship". By your definition, anyone attempting to even disipline, after the fact, a person who had shouted "fire" in a crowded theater, in par- tcular one that had not in fact been on fire, would be guilt of unwarranted "censorship".
I do not think a RIR can survive any other way than by being a "disinterested party" that engages in registry duties, and none other.
Assuming, for the sake of argument, that I and every other member of RIPE agreed with that exact assertion, then I would be forced to ask the obvious question: What then are the goals, missions, and responsibilities of the RIPE Anti-Abuse working group?