[anti-abuse-wg] Enabling community self-help?

Hi Aftab - its not just wave an ID and you can get a gun, there's a
background check too :)

http://www.ehow.com/way_5958275_do-background-check-firearm-purchase_.html

Not very topical here and I think RIPE NCC just might have a heart
attack if someone went and mandated background checks to acquire IP
space .. but well, there's other ways, including revocation of
resources.

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Aftab Siddiqui
<aftab.siddiqui at gmail.com> wrote:
> If we keep this analogy as benchmark (which many would mind). Gun Shop
> verified the ID and it was legitimate  by the look of the card or document
> but they has no means to trace back the documents/ID to a real person. No
> online verification.
>
> So whats the purpose of having such verification. Same is the case with RIR,
> isn't it? They check the documents but they don't have the means to
> traceback the legitimacy of all the documents and claims the customer is
> posing.



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