[anti-abuse-wg] Allocation of number resources

In message <20130207125220.GG51699 at Space.Net>, 
Gert Doering <gert at space.net> wrote:

>I think we perfectly agree that *criminals* should have taken their
>address space away, and that's what the NCC does.  Now, "criminals" - and
>this is where we know to disagree - are not folks that send e-mails that
>other folks do not like, but folks where an instrument of the law has
>decided "they are criminals" (LEOs or courts).

I feel quite certain that there is some... perhaps many... jurisdictions
where launching and/or sustaining a DDoS is not in the least bit illegal.

Should the organization, administration, and governance of an orderly
Internet be held hostage to the lowest common denominator of whatever
backwards underdeveloped country or local jurisdiction has adopted and
implemented the weakest statutes with respect to abusive use of the
Internet?

If so, then I do believe that I shall be shortly be moving to Belize
and opening up my own boutique DDoS-for-hire company.

(Even within the "civilized" developed/industrialized nations of the
world, I do not believe that I am at all alone in my view that the
various members of the various legislative bodies of these countries,
including my own, have shown themselves, over time, to be largely if
not entirely incapable of making rational decisions with respect to
what should or what should not be allowed in "cyberspace".  If technical
folks, such as us here, who actually have a prayer of actually under-
standing the issues, abdicate governance of the Internet to these
technically incompetent national legislatures, then we will get what
we deserve in return for that, I think.)

>Fake registration data in itself is also enough to withdraw resources
>by the RIPE NCC...

Please excuse my impertinence, but I have to ask... When?


Regards,
rfg