[members-discuss] Spam from Cyprian Nica / IP Broker Limited (Re: Inquiry regarding availability for subnet x.x.x.0 - y.y.y.255

Andy

On 11/10/16 17:38, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi Athina,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 03:19:41PM +0200, Athina Fragkouli wrote:
>> According to the agreement "The Broker shall adhere to the
>> relevant RIPE Policies and RIPE NCC procedural documents…” The
>> RIPE Database Terms and Conditions are neither of these.
> 
> In that case what do we need to do to make abiding by the terms of
> use of the RIPE Database part of the Broker agreement? Looking at
> Cyprian's behaviour here, they are quite willing to break the terms
> of the Database agreement and then when called on it they would
> prefer to grill other LIRs in public about their use of resources
> than accept that their own behaviour is wrong.
> 
> Without making adherence to the Database terms also part of the
> Broker terms, I don't see what is now to stop all brokers doing this
> as there is a clear benefit to them in doing so.

RIPE NCC legal and the Board is looking at how to make adherence to the
terms of use of the RIPE Database a condition of the Broker agreement.
As various people have pointed out most brokers already adhere to this
anyway so this shouldn't be rocket science.

Of course I'm not a lawyer...

All the best

Nigel