[120324] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Arrogant RBL list maintainers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michelle Sullivan)
Wed Dec 16 12:09:57 2009
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:09:05 +0100
From: Michelle Sullivan <matthew@sorbs.net>
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0912101653220.9562@scott.cb3rob.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Please reply to the list, not me and the list!
Sven Olaf Kamphuis wrote:
> thing is that it's illegal to maintain a database with "personal details"
> which ip addresses according to various german courts are (don't ask..
> mmk? ;) ofcourse we all know ip addresses identify nodes on a network, not
> persons, but the germans seem to mainain a different view on this,
> despite us isps being the owners of the internet and not the german
> government ;).
>
> therefore we are not even -allowed- to cooperate with trend micro *grin*
>
> sometimes laws really come in handy you know ;)
>
>
Based on what you say there, then the RIPE whois database cannot contain
the information either because it to would be maintaining a database of
"personal details"...
Love to hear the legal battle on that one! <grin>
Michelle
