[128639] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lightly used IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Fri Aug 13 17:04:08 2010
Date: 13 Aug 2010 21:04:00 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4C659AB4.6030401@craigslist.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>I've tried to deal with that a few times - mainly by writing up the
>first upstream AS. Usually they don't care (and every time I have
>noticed someone blatantly stealing space, it's been spammers).
Has there ever been a case where ARIN has tried to take a block back
from a party to whom they had allocated it and doesn't want to give it
back? My impression is that stolen space is all swamp or legacy or
abandoned, but I really don't know.
In case it's not obvious, I'm not advocating that people thumb their
noses at ARIN, but I don't see any obvious way to avoid my scenario.
R's,
John
