[anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 New Policy Proposal (BGP Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

Gert Doering wrote on 01/04/2019 13:54:
> Sorry, this is getting ridiculous.

It's worse than that: the proposal is that the RIPE NCC weaponises its 
registry data and turns it into a mechanism for punishing people when 
they do things that other people don't like.

BGP hijacking is just the start, but there is an endless list of things 
which are considered offensive or illegal in some or all jurisdictions 
in the RIPE NCC service area, e.g. spam, porn, offending political 
leaders, gambling, drugs, other religions, political dissent, blasphemy 
and so on.

The RIPE NCC service area comprises around 72 countries and has over 1 
billion inhabitants, and if you have a service area that large, 
everybody is going to be offended by something.

So, rather than talking about how much we want to do something about BGP 
hijacking, maybe we should discuss what grounds we'd have for refusing 
to deregister resources for things that other people in the RIPE NCC 
service region feel constitutes abuse, and where the line would be 
drawn?  Let's start with political dissent and gay rights.

Nick