[address-policy-wg] Hoarding /22 out of 185/8

On Wed, May 6, 2015, at 12:00, Opteamax GmbH - RIPE-Team wrote:

> ... and reading this I think the policy must be strictly changed. I do 
> not exactly know the wording of RIPE membership rules, but if you set up 
> a "Verein" in Germany (and this is more or less the type which matches 
> best the legal form RIPE NCC has) you are recommended to put something 
> like "each and every person who is willingly doing any harm to the club, 
> it's reputation or other members is to be kicked out without any right 
> for compensations. All rights this person has be being member are 
> immediately withdrawn. The exclusion from the club does not reduce the 
> any regress against the excluded member".

Except this is not policy (done by the RIPE community), but a RIPE NCC
affair. Changes like this are to be decided in general meeting with
approval from a majority of members (including the incriminated LIRs and
people that may not understand what this is all about).
Discussing such issues shoud be done ont the APWG mailing list, but on
the members-discuss or a membership-related mailing list.
Please also take into account that people having a right to vote at the
NCC GM are not always the same as the ones active here.
But the idea is not bad.

> I see, that it is not possible to prevent every bypassing, but I think 
> someone who is even spaming and advertising sale of resources shall be 
> kicked out RIPE NCC immediately and all resources this person or 
> enterprise ever requested should be withdrawn!

For the time being it is a little difficult to enforce, and will yield
some highly undesirable consequences.