Re: Draft Agenda for WG meeting at RIPE31

[Piet Beertema <]

    I'm not going to be there and I couldn't have helped anyway, but
    I suggest you try to investigate the following:
    
        Legal status and activities in various countries.
        Is forgery in "MAIL From:" OK or is that in fact illegal?
Is it illegal to put someone else's name and address
on the envelope of a letter? My guess is that there
is no country in this world where that is illegal.

        What about address lists, i.e. is owning the address CD legal?
        Is selling the address CD legal? What about creating it?
CD's with addresses are a normal commercial commodity.
    
        Would it be possible to create and maintain a "custommer black
        list" that is shared between ISPs? (Assuming this would help).
You can maintain your own blacklists, as long as you
keep them to yourself and don't share them with others.
If you would, you'd very likely have to prove in court
that customer X of ISP Y did violate *your* acceptable
use policy, where X is not a customer of yours and you
gained the knowledge about X only from ISP Y.


	Piet