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

On 29 Sep 2010, at 13:41, Laura Cobley wrote:

> Dear Ronald,
> 
> Thank you for your mail.
> 
> To address your concerns, according to current address policy, the RIPE
> NCC is responsible for the distribution of Internet resources within the
> RIPE NCC Service Region. To comply with this requirement, the RIPE NCC
> does not deny the distribution of Internet resources to organisations
> outside the RIPE NCC Service Region, as long as those resources will be
> used within the RIPE NCC Service Region.


Which makes perfect sense to me

> 
> Activities such as responding to complaints about spam are not covered by
> RIPE policy and are currently not in the scope of the RIPE NCC.

This I'm not so sure about. While I can understand that it is not currently part of RIPE's remit to do anything, does that mean that it will completely ignore abuse which is being "aided" by RIPE via the allocation of IP space?


> 
> With regards to the hijacking of Internet number resources, I can assure
> you that we investigate all reports of hijacking of resources which are
> under the management of the RIPE NCC, as this is against RIPE policy. If
> the resources are found to be hijacked, the RIPE NCC will reclaim them.
> Any reports of suspected hijacking can be made to <ncc at ripe.net>.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Laura Cobley
> RIPE NCC Customer Services Manager
> 

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