[anti-abuse-wg] RIPE NCC Executive Board election

On 17/04/2020 10:09, Tõnu Tammer via anti-abuse-wg wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> Every member of the community, who is on the receiving end of abuse,
> feels that something should be done!
>
> I reiterate what I have said before: this is just one example of how
> todays' approach in handling abuse or designing anti-abuse policy is not
> really working. I am not the only one who has realised that this
> community seems not to agree anything. That is perfectly understandable.
> When once there was just academia who drove the development of internet,
> now the community has grown encompassing legitimate business but also
> abusers who have become part of that community. We can always find
> reasons (justified or not) on why not to do anything or change anything
> but we have to understand that impact of not doing anything will
> continue to grow.
>
> Already number of countries argue rightly that the multi-stakeholder
> approach is not working. And that is all too true. The reasons why they
> want to change are likely not driven by the fact current approach is not
> working but something more serious. We have to stop fuelling the
> arguments that decentralised model is not delivering. If we continue as
> we have, we will have changes forced upon us (thing we have turned down
> so far) but its likely that more will come and things, we would not be
> happy to see at all.
>
Tõnu nailed it.  Print it and frame it.

-Hank