[anti-abuse-wg] draft policy

Frank,

> So the world-wide community tells RIPE NCC (and their members) what the
> members are going to do with their money they pay for RIPE NCCs services ?

Not quite, the world-wide community tells the RIRs what they are going
to do with their number resources.  There are some people heavily
involved with policy development in all the regions, but equally, there
are many people involved only with the policy development in their local
region, which is why the RIRs often have divergent policies.

The RIPE NCC members (i.e. the paid-up LIRs) decide, to some extent, how
the RIPE NCC spends the money they pay as membership fees by approving
-- or otherwise -- the charging plan that is presented to them at the
Autumn General Meeting.

> I gonna pay about 5000 people worldwide 10$ if they vote for, that
> small LIRs do not have to pay for the services anymore and just the big
> ones have to pay.
> 5000 people worldwide will mean consensus in the RIPE community.

Sorry, you are confusing the RIPE community with the RIPE NCC again.

The charging plan (who pays what) comes out of the RIPE NCC, and the
RIPE NCC members vote on that at the General Meeting.  The charging plan
is not something the RIPE community has direct influence over.

> Or think about: spammers paying the community to give them more IPs ...
> absolutly legaly.

Consensus != majority.

In theory this could happen, but one of the strong points of an open
policy development process is that anything along those lines should be
caught and should not reach consensus.

All the best,
Rob