variable@localhost said:
RIPE already has terms and conditions that you have to sign up to if you
wish to become a LIR. I'm merely suggesting that it might be worthwhile
bringing them up to date. Obviously, with a tougher set of T's & C's RIPE
would need extra resources to enforce them.
That's not the point. If the terms are reasonable *for RIPE's monopoly
purpose*, then you can enforce them. But a condition that, for example, you
must use Cisco routers would be unreasonable for that purpose, so it's an
abuse of their monopoly.
Rules beyond those necessary to ensure IP addresses are allocated
efficiently are outside their monopoly position.
However you wouldn't want RIPE to allocate you a batch of IPs that
were previously used by a Cyberpromo and are consequently completely
blocked by every DNSBL and local MTA blacklist on the net. If they
did, and you gave those IPs out to customers there'd be a mess as
your customers would want to burn an effigy of you ;) So it may make
sense for RIPE to guard themselves against a future Cyberpromo
destroying the usability and hence value of those IPs, by stipulating
something in the TOS that forbids the use of the IPs for spam service
purposes.