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<div style="direction: ltr;">Why would I ask about something I am posting as an individual in my personal capacity?</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">I see great pains being taken to have NCC stay hands off and arms length from abuse issues at its members. I understand the motivation.</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">However, being in a fiduciary role - with IPv4 being traded like currency these days the description fits - RIPE NCC can’t not get involved.</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">I am concerned that this is eventually going to lead to heavy handed state regulation if a regulator gets involved after some particularly egregious misbehaviour by a (hypothetical at this point but the risk exists or might even
exist now) shell company that gets itself membership, even LIR status and then uses a large allocation of IPs exclusively for crime.</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">NCC owes it to the rest of its membership and the internet community at large to take a more active role in this matter.</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">Though those of us that are saying this are probably voices in the wilderness at this point.</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">—srs</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">--srs</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 30, 2020 2:16:34 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Serge Droz <serge.droz@first.org>; anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net <anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote on 29/04/2020 17:26:<br>
> Is there anything that stops NCC from doing additional due diligence<br>
> such as validating abuse issues along with the invalid contact<br>
> information etc, before taking such a decision?<br>
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Did you ask your corporate legal counsel for their opinion on how <br>
workable this plan is?<br>
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Nick<br>
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