[anti-abuse-wg] RIPE Charter, and some strange allocations

Greetings all,

I feel sure that someone will tell me if this is an inappropriate quetion
for this mailing list.  But since it seems to relate to "abuse", I'm not
sure why it would be.

I was just reading the RIPE Charter at:

     http://www.ripe.net/info/ncc/ncc-charter.html

and I see that it pretty much conforms with my expectations, i.e. that
RIPE's is an organization chartered to:

     ``...provides services to European Internet Service Providers,
     telecommunications, and large enterprises in the RIPE NCC service
     region.''

I just need to ask if the country of Belize is within the RIPE service region.
(The last time I looked at a map, it didn't seem to be very close to Europe.)

I'm only asking because of AS50877 and also the IP block 195.80.148.0/22,
both of which seem to have been issued by RIPE, and both of which seem to
have been issued, in the first instance, to:

org-name:       InstantExchanger Ltd.
address:        Morning Glory St. 23
address:        Belize City
address:        Belize
phone:          +501234565301
fax-no:         +501234565302
abuse-mailbox:  abuse at instant-exchanger.com

I should say that I certainly _do_ understand that sometimes, companies move,
e.g. from continent to continent, and/or open remote field offices in different
RiR regions, but I've seen nothing in the records for either AS50877 or the
"INSTANTEXCHANGER-NET" network (195.80.148.0/22) that would indicate that
these RIPE allocations (one AS and one netblock) were anything other than
initial/original allocations.

So I can't help but be puzzled.  Is there a rational explanation for these
allocations?  Continental drift perhaps?


Regards,
rfg


P.S.  I wouldn't even be asking about all this, here or elsewhere, but there
most assuredly _was_ a snowshoe spamming operation operating out of that block
until recently.

P.P.S  The two domains that were formerly most closely associated with this
AS and this IP address block (195.80.148.0/22) were instant-exchanger.com and
instant-dns.com.  The former... which is also the one and only contact address
for the AS and the IP block, has Status: clientHold as per the applicable
domain name registrar, and thus, there's not even a working contact e-mail
for either the AS or the iP block at this time. The other domain,
instant-dns.com meanwhile, apparently has no nameservers at the present
time, thus rendering it effectively non-existant.

In a situation such as this, will RIPE de-register and/or take back the ASN
and/or the 195.80.148.0/22 allocation?