Re: Commecial vs fairness (was: spam support)
- Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 17:05:40 +0100
In message <20020216165815.D20830@localhost>, furio ercolessi writes:
> > RIPE makes no claims of usability for any of the IP ranges they
> > give out. The only claim that is made, is that the IP range is
> > globally unique.
>
> Of course. What I wanted to mean is not "RIPE NCC is supposed to
> give out usable IP blocks", but "in the current status of affairs, the
> system may have some global benefits if the regulations were
> modified so as to consider this problem, and decrease the
> likelihood of assigning a deteriorated block to some poor fellow".
An announcement from the NCC upon return of a IP range would fix that.
Anyone running a blacklist would then have the entire hold period to
remove any listings from that range.
Done properly it could even be automated.
- marcel
