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

In message <879A3743-07E6-411C-AE53-E3BC06C3585E at steffann.nl>, 
Sander Steffann <sander at steffann.nl> wrote:

>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.

For the benefit of someone... me, in particular... who is not only not
a RIPE member, but who is also even physically located outside of the
RIPE region, could you elaborate a bit on this "mandate" you speak of?

I'm really just curious about one thing.  For its region, ARIN actually
has an explicit policy that in the event of any person or entity
being caught deliberately defrauding ARIN, ARIN will (allegedly[1])
make contact with law enforcement authorities, inform them of the
fraud, and (I believe) ask those authorities to take action against
the perpetrator(s).

It is certainly pleasing to know that RIPE NCC already has in its hand an
explicit mandate from the membership to take action to undo the effects
of any fraud or frauds that have been perpetrated against it, however
I cannot help but be curious as to whether or not that is the outer
limit of RIPE NCC's mandate with regards to such incidents.


Regards,
rfg


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[1] I am forced to insert the qualifier "allegedly" here because... much
to my dismay... I personally am not aware of any actual instance where
any fraud artist who has cleverly managed to defaud ARIP out of number
resources have ever faced any sort of arrest, let alone any sort of
actual prosecution.  (Not that there have not been numerous worthy
candidates.)