[ncc-services-wg] [policy-announce] 2012-08 New Policy Proposal (Publication of Sponsoring LIR for Independent Number Resources)

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 04:23:56PM +0200, Richard Hartmann wrote:
>This could help curb, or at least detect and react to, abuse once IPv4
>PI is hopefully allowed once again.

That is exactly why I strongly oppose this proposal. Publishing the
sponsoring LIR for a PI assignment creates an appearance of
responsibility on the part of the sposoring LIR, for the actions of the
PI assignee, *that does not exist*. 
Prima facie, all that a LIR does is handle paperwork for the
NCC - many LIRs do not even route the PI space they sponsor. No
relationship beyond the administration of documents necessarily exists.

Registering this administrative relationship creates an attack surface
for harassment and extortion of sponsoring LIRs by copyright
trolls, anti-spam extortionists and others of that ilk and infringes on
the right of a business (such as a LIR is) not to reveal any and all
commercial relationships they may have with other parties.

The arguments in detail:

"The RIPE resource allocation and assignment policy documents require
that Internet number resources be registered 'via a public registry
documenting address space allocation and assignment' and notes that
'this is necessary to ensure uniqueness and to provide information for
Internet troubleshooting at all levels'."

Invalid, the resources are registered with the RIR, not the sponsoring
LIR.

"This mechanism provides a simple means for End Users to identify with
which sponsoring organisation they have a contractual link, in the case
this information is unknown to the End User."

Accepted, but the end-user can easily find this information by
contacting the RIPE NCC.

"This policy simplifies the mechanism for verification and co-ordination
between sponsoring organisations when an End User wishes to transfer
resources from one sponsoring organisation to another."

Unneccessary, as the actual decision and verification is done by the NCC
anyway.

"Publishing this information provides an additional means for tackling
abuse issues on the Internet."

Invalid, see above.


Regards,
Sascha Luck