[149302] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Thanks & Let's Prevent this in the Future.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Wed Feb 1 04:11:36 2012
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
To: Kelvin Williams <kwilliams@altuscgi.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 09:12:41 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CANEysbEnLj4ck7EZsL14KS9KHvOH_+z8K3TexB81HdTmiyng0w@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 1 Feb 2012, at 09:01, "Kelvin Williams" <kwilliams@altuscgi.com> wrote:=
>=20
> A few months ago, when establishing a new peering relationship I was
> encouraged (actually required) to utilize one of the IRRs. I took the t=
ime
> to register all of my routes, ASNs, etc. However, as I learned today, t=
his
> was probably done in vain. Too many people won't spend the extra
> 30-seconds to verify the information listed there or in ARINs WHOIS.
It's amazing isn't it. It isn't only fraud and maliciousness that this pre=
vents.=20
A number of times I have been asked to advertise space or open filters for=
space based on typos and people not understanding address notation and CI=
DR. So it's with doing if only to prevent this.
--=20
Leigh
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