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

>>> Of course in amongst all of this I would suspect if the resources were
>>> handed out, there would be a lot of depeering and null routing going on
>>> in relation to the poor, forced-to-spam, citizens of the Grand Duchy. :)
>>
>> Once again, based upon the available evidence, I would claim that it
>> would in fact be improbable that any substantial amount of deppeering
>> and/or null routing would occur, in practice.  It is a classic "trajedy
>> of the commons" problem, and no operator would wish to have to explain
>> to its user base why they, end end lusers, can no longer send e-mail to
>> their cousins in Grand Fenwick.

> I'm not sure, Spamhaus were quite happy to block Latvia for a far 
> smaller reason. I think if it was a mandated activity for all citizens 
> the reaction of the international community might be interesting.

> Brian

For those that want to read up on what actually happened on that specific incident in Latvia (July/August 2010), have a read on the following open letter from CERT.lv 

https://cert.lv/uploads/uploads/OpenLetter.pdf 

Erik Bais