[145401] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Botnets buying up IPv4 address space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benson Schliesser)
Fri Oct 7 15:04:29 2011
From: Benson Schliesser <bensons@queuefull.net>
In-Reply-To: <4AF3AAB1-5201-457B-9112-58CE2339EA5A@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 14:03:25 -0500
To: Arturo Servin <arturo.servin@gmail.com>,
Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 7, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Arturo Servin wrote:
> What do you mean with "purchasing or renting IPv4".
>=20
> Last time that I check it was not possible in the RIR world.
Nevertheless, it is possible in the real world.
> On 7 Oct 2011, at 15:11, Joly MacFie wrote:
>=20
>> I'd welcome comments as to solutions to this. Or is it just =
scaremongering?
>> ...
>> Botnets buying up IPv4 address space
>>=20
>> http://j.mp/nMJ5Lr (Threat Post)
Domain names, IP addresses, network connectivity, etc - all of these are =
resources that people can acquire, (mis)use, and replace. The fact that =
reputation systems often conflate people and their (impermanent) =
resources is unfortunate, and is the source of much operational pain.
I don't see anything new in the article, and would classify parts of it =
as scaremongering. (e.g. the criticism of IPv6)
Cheers,
-Benson
