[150957] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Request to lease IP space,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Michaelson)
Thu Mar 8 20:07:16 2012
From: George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>
In-Reply-To: <20120308165600.A88561A2@m0005297.ppops.net>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 11:06:21 +1000
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
no. you misunderstand.
The value proposition is not spam: that works with unallocated space.
The value proposition is gaming google page rank, by using widely spread =
and legitimately routed IPs to force your paying customers page rank =
high, by hits and references. This is a very high value business: one =
customer paying you big bucks, to have their web high in google =
pagerank. Not attacking a million mailboxes.
In this model, the 'target' is google. The IPS need to come from =
classic, widespread IPs because google now count the source IP and can =
tell if you use a virtually hosted single IP to try and do this.
I have a question: are we actually able to state this consumption of =
address is 'illegal' ? I personally judge it to be unethical, but that =
is not the same thing.
-George
PS since this goes to address policy, I need to declare that I work for =
an RIR but I am posting in a personal capacity and nothing I say is a =
reflection of any RIR address policy. I work in the research department, =
not in registry/allocations=
