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

On 15/10/2012 20:38, Sascha Luck wrote:
> To re-iterate, a LIR is *not* responsible for "abuse" perpetrated by the
> end-user, your proposal is merely trying to create this responsibility
> out of thin air and ex post facto. (I assume this requirement is
> intended to apply to existing contracts)

My goodness, I have no idea where you pulled that one from. :-)

> This proposal is, by this argument, working into the hands of certain
> parties (you know who you are) whose mission in business is to impose their
> political and moral beliefs on the internet in general and will
> most certainly use this information to put pressure on LIRs to cancel
> their contracts with, or refuse to sponsor, "unwelcome" end-users.

Ok, I'm going to call a halt at this stage.  I'm really not interested in
arguing against scary conspiratorial hand-waving and defending this policy
proposal against allegations that the sky is going to fall.

I don't think that the sky is going to fall, or that the policy is going to
cause sinister attacks to occur with chilling effects.  In fact, I can't
see even a single black helicopter.

For the record let me state that I do think that this proposal is a
generally sensible clarification of the current policy which is fully
consistent with other similar current policies concerning information
availability and IETF recommended practices and all that sort of thing.

Nick