[128680] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lightly used IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Sat Aug 14 00:37:48 2010
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: Jeffrey Lyon <jeffrey.lyon@blacklotus.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:37:27 -0400
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin0Yxq6VcuO=FL+TOGGe_AssF8AViCNJSpvBkDU@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 14, 2010, at 12:12 AM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote:
> ARIN needs to investigate these companies and start reclaiming space.
> Pose as a customer, see if they'll sell you a /24 or shorter on a
> dedicated server for some arbitrary reason, and if so they're busted.
>>=20
> From there launch a full investigation and start reclaiming space.
Jeff -=20
Yes and No.
Yes, we'd like to know if you believe that an organization is
forging their address space justification. We always do some=20
cross-checking and verification but it is not foolproof. =20
No, we will not pose as a customer, although we will verify some
customer assignments and speak with them. If we find evidence=20
of fraud in company's request to ARIN, we will perform resource
review and have them return space to match what they should have
received (as described in <https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html>
NRPM section 12). We will also make certain that future requests
are very closely reviewed. Recognize that these creative hosting
firms are also businesses with customers, and reclaiming IP space
out from under them to impact customers isn't the intent of policy.
We do occasionally have egregious acts (e.g. where the "ISP" turns=20
out to be simply a purveyor of IP addresses to online marketing
firms), and circumstances such as those are where reclamation is
used.
Does that clarify things?
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
