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Re: [#135346] Unauthorized BGP Announcements (follow up to Hijacked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Antonio Querubin)
Tue Jan 31 23:54:21 2012
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:53:14 -1000 (HST)
From: Antonio Querubin <tony@lavanauts.org>
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <7B85F9D8-BA9E-4341-9242-5EB514895B4C@virtualized.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, David Conrad wrote:
> In the dim past, I had a somewhat similar situation:
>
> - A largish (national telco of a small country) ISP started announcing address space a customer of theirs provided. Unfortunately, the address space wasn't the ISP's customer's to provide.
> - When the ISP was notified by both their RIR and the organization to which the address space was rightfully delegated, the ISP's response was:
>
> "We have a contractual relationship with our customer to announce that space. We have neither a contractual relationship (in this context) with the RIR nor the RIR's customer. The RIR and/or the RIR's customer should resolve this issue with our customer."
>
> It as an eye-opening experience.
Contracts are generally not a valid reason to be breaking laws.
Antonio Querubin
e-mail: tony@lavanauts.org
xmpp: antonioquerubin@gmail.com
