[130363] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AS11296 -- Hijacked?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Fri Oct 1 15:21:33 2010
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 15:21:23 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20101001120050.GA29429@gsp.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 1, 2010, at 8:00 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
>=20
> Spammers have absolutely no problem getting allocation after allocation
> after allocation, turning each one into scorched earth and moving on.
Materially correct, despite the fact that we look into=20
the company registrations, principal parties involved,
and mailing addresses at the time of a new request. It
is simply too easy to create a complete illusion of a=20
valid organization.
> ARIN et.al. certainly have no interest in stopping them,
Hmm... An interesting assumption, and one that is quite incorrect.
Rich - How do suggest dealing with this problem? If you can suggest
a straightforward way of vetting a new organization which the community
will support, I'll happily have it implemented asap.
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
