Banks, corporations, corner grocery stores, the guy walking down a street who gets approached for a loan from someone who claims his wallet was stolen and he needs a few euros for a meal and petrol to get home .. everyone is a fortune teller of sorts, and some of them invest quite a lot in fraud / trust and safety teams, AIML and so on.
Why should RIPE NCC be any different? --srs ________________________________ From: Leo Vegoda <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, 03 August 2026 20:31:38 To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> Cc: Jeroen Massar <[email protected]>; Serge Droz <[email protected]>; denis walker <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; Gert Doering <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Security-wg] Abuse mailboxes are increasingly no longer monitored and are being replaced by (bad) forms On 3 Aug 2026, at 14:10, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> wrote: Rather than hand IP space out to bad actors like candy with minimal to no verification You imply that it is possible tell ahead of time whether a new company is well intentioned or not. In my view, trying to turn the RIPE NCC into some kind of fortune teller with an associated address registry is unlikely to end well. Regards, Leo
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