[105343] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Latest instalment of the "hijacked /16s" story
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (michael.dillon@bt.com)
Wed Jun 18 06:33:04 2008
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:32:35 +0100
In-Reply-To: <4858A35C.9050200@psg.com>
From: <michael.dillon@bt.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
=20
> > http://www.47-usc-230c2.org/chapter3.html
> > This time 128.168/16 - and by the same group that seems to have=20
> > acquired control of the earlier one.
>=20
> luckily, there is no black market in address space. or at=20
> least so the theory goes on arin and ripe public policy lists.
No, the theory goes that there *IS* a black market and changing ARIN
or RIPE policies to make it a white market would be a bad idea. Better=20
to help ARIN to document the fact that this is not a valid allocation
so that they can recover the block.
--Michael Dillon
