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

In message <20190321130927.GA99066 at cilantro.c4inet.net>, 
"Sascha Luck [ml]" <aawg at c4inet.net> wrote:

>It sounds to me as if you propose to simply use the NCC as the
>enforcement arm of the "Will Of The Community".


I confess to being rather muddled and confused, because of having not
gotten enough sleep last night.  So I will just ask my question, in
all ernestness, because at this particularly muddled moment, I honestly
do not know the answer.

If we set aside any emotional (negative) connotations and baggage that
may be associated with the word "enforcement", isn't the above
basically an accurate description of what the NCC already does, and
what it already has been doing for lo these many years?

Doesn't NCC merely giveth and taketh away formal allocations (as recorded
in the big black book that we call the WHOIS data base) in accordance
with the "Will Of The Community"?  Isn't that precisely what it (NCC)
was meant to do?  And if so, then is there anything really new or
different being suggested with the present proposal?

I don't believe that anyone is proposing that NCC should take control
of anyone's routers... right?  They just make entries, written with
e-pencil, in the Big Black Book, and then sometimes, they use the
correspsonding e-eraser to remove some of those same entries, again,
all in accordance with and at the pleasure of the "Will Of The Community"...
right?


Regards,
rfg