[149123] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US DOJ victim letter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Peach)
Sat Jan 28 11:40:23 2012
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:39:33 -0500
From: John Peach <john-nanog@johnpeach.com>
In-reply-to: <20120128163047.GA25420@vacation.karoshi.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:30:47 +0000
bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:20:08PM -0500, Martin Hannigan wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Randy Epstein <nanog@hostleasing.net> wrote:
> > >
[snip]
> I missed the part where ARIN turned over its address database w/ associatedd
> registration information to the Fed ... I mean I've always advocated for
> LEO access, but ther has been significant pushback fromm the community on
> unfettered access to that data. As I recall, there are even policies and
> processes to limit/restrict external queries to prevent a DDos of the whois
> servers. And some fairly strict policies on who gets dumps of the address
> space. As far as I know (not very far) bundling the address database
> -and- the registration data are not available to mere mortals.
>
> So - just how DID the Fed get the data w/o violating ARIN policy?
>
> /bill
>
>
Ours came from our whois information.
--
John
