[anti-abuse-wg] Notice: Fradulent RIPE ASNs

Hi,

> This is a list of RIPE assigned pi / pa netblocks that are in spamhaus .. quite a few in the past few days, large ones too. Mostly romania / eastern europe, for one reason or the other..
> 
> http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings/ripe

Being listed by Spamhaus is not a reason to revoke address space. There is no such policy in the RIPE region, and I think it is very unlikely that the whole RIPE community will agree to let one organisation veto anybody's right to address space. There have been incidents in the past where Spamhaus listings were very controversial.

Now if anyone sees that there has been fraud, people lying to the RIPE NCC, people lying about their need for address space, etc. then that is in violation of the RIPE policies and the RIPE NCC Service Contract. In those cases the RIPE NCC can act and has the mandate of the members to act. With 8800+ members it is not possible to audit all of them all the time, so helpful information about fraud are very helpful for the RIPE NCC to target their audits.

Cheers,
Sander