[anti-abuse-wg] LIR membership, was Policy disallowing spam from RIPE blocks

Suresh,

And finally, #3!

On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 20:19 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> 3. Maybe some way to weed out bogus LIRs, tighten the process of new
> LIR creation [or simply get rid of the entire LIR concept?]

Tricky. The RIPE NCC is a membership organization - the LIRs are the
owners. Right now the membership process is really easy, but membership
does not automatically get you an allocation. You still have to justify
your first allocation, and then justify the assignments within your
allocation when you want to use the space.

I don't represent an LIR, so it feels a bit weird to recommend changes
to the process. If it is too easy, some things can be done. Perhaps some
sort of process where you need to be introduced by another LIR before
you can join? It would be a low hurdle, but it might be something.

--
Shane