[anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

In message <20190517134601.GA15844 at allog.giato>, 
furio ercolessi <furio+as at spin.it> wrote:

>LIRs in the RIPE area are now limited to a single /22 ( https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-708#51 ),
>and as a consequence of this we are now seeing people creating multiple LIRs one
>after the other, each getting a single /22, and amassing a large of amount of v4 space
>with this simple trick.
>
>ARIN seems now to be going more aggressively than in the past after these guys
>( https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/05/a-tough-week-for-ip-address-scammers/ ).

I would like to just echo everything that furio just said.  There exists
an abundance of evidence supporting his contention that the supposed
"limit" of a /22 in the RIPE region is a joke, and easily gamed.

Is anyone preparing a proposal to deal with this large and evident problem?

I hope so.

Various bad actors in the RIPE region are playing a large game of Monopoly
with the remaining RIPE IPv4 assets.  This is unjust and does not serve
the wider interests of the RIPE community.

Furthermore, unlike in the case of the recently publicised game which deprived
ARIN of a great deal of valuable IPv4 real estate, and which involved numerous
acts that qualify, under law, as outright criminal fraud, in the RIPE region,
due to the ridiculous loosness of the rules, no acts of criminal fraud are
necessary in order to game the system and/or to obtain large swaths of RIPE's
remaining IPv4 address space, one /22 at a time.

This is a travesty and needs to be fixed yesterday.


Regards,
rfg