[anti-abuse-wg] New Abuse Information on RIPE NCC Website

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 04:22:38PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> Now the Internet itself in engaged in a great civil war, testing whether
> any distributed any decentralized amalgam and association of communicating
> but otherwise independent networks, each answerable to no law but their own,
> can long endure.  

I challenge that "answerable to no law".

We all are operating in the boundaries of the national legal system that
governs where an entity is located (easier for national ISPs, might be
interesting for international networks, but still, laws *do* govern and
ISPs are answerable to them).

What people seem to overlook when looking across the great waters is that
there's a large number of countries in europe, and each has their own legal
system - so whatever is illegal across all of the US might be legal in 
one of the non-US states around the world - and that's actually what makes
defining "network abuse" *that stands up to law* in a RIPE-wide manner 
somewhat tricky.

Gert Doering
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