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

In message <20190320221450.GS99066 at cilantro.c4inet.net>, 
"Sascha Luck [ml]" <aawg at c4inet.net> wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 01:00:24PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>>
>>In all of the apartments I've ever rented in my life, if you violated
>>the rules then you would be out on your ear in three days.
>
>This is a horrible analogy.

I'm not persuaded that it is.  Here on this side of the pond we do not,
in general, suffer fools gladly -or- coddle troublemakers, especially
when it comes to private commercial contractual arrangements, which
is, after all, what all of the relations between RIPE and its members
actually are.  In this country, at least, nobody is "entitled" to an
apartment, any more than anyone is entitled to their own block of
IP addresses.  These things are *not* sacred "rights" which devolve
upon every citizen from the generosity of some unseen creator.  They
are rather commodities, acquired via non-governmental private trans-
actions, and ones which must be either paid for or dispensed with, and
to which certain reasonable restrictions on use may apply.

>If there was only one provider of apartments in your region...

Fortunately this hypothetical does not actually apply, either to
apartments in my local community or to IP addresses on planet
earth, and thus it does not seem worthy of further exploration.


Regards,
rfg