[117310] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Repeated Blacklisting / IP reputation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Wed Sep 9 13:16:54 2009
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:15:58 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <982D8D05B6407A49AD506E6C3AC8E7D60173755CACA6@caralain.haven.nynaeve.net>
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Skywing wrote:
> What's to stop spammers from doing this to cycle through blocks in rapid-fashion?
>
> This proposal seems easily abusable to me.
>
Oh, I don't know, maybe ARIN staff can say no? The process is heavy with
human interaction, there is nothing "rapid" about it, and bears no
comparison to the automated process of registering a domain name. You'd
know that if you ever had to make a request for a number resource from ARIN.
~Seth
