[At-Large] US v John Doe 1 & Others [Defendants]
John R. Levine
johnl at iecc.com
Sat Nov 26 22:41:16 UTC 2011
> The jurisdictional issue is fascinating, but it's also worth asking why
> RIPE had to be ordered to work with ISC and the multinational law
> enforcement effort aimed at shutting this down.
Nothing mysterious there -- some of the crooks' DNS servers were located
in RIPE allocated space in the Ukraine.
If you're asking why they were ordered rather than requested, I think
you'll find that RIPE is (not unreasonably) reluctant to mess with
allocations absent a legal requirement to do so.
R's,
John
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