[150959] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Request to lease IP space, or things that make you want to go
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Huff)
Thu Mar 8 20:24:45 2012
From: Matthew Huff <mhuff@ox.com>
To: George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 20:23:42 -0500
In-Reply-To: <4C14311B-271E-4E3F-B8A3-88646046FAA2@apnic.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Of course, we declined. I just thought it was worth posting so others might=
be alerted that this was going on.
Hadn't known about the google page ranking SEO, but it makes sense
On Mar 8, 2012, at 8:06 PM, "George Michaelson" <ggm@apnic.net> wrote:
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> no. you misunderstand.
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> The value proposition is not spam: that works with unallocated space.
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> 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 pa=
ying you big bucks, to have their web high in google pagerank. Not attackin=
g a million mailboxes.
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> 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.
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> I have a question: are we actually able to state this consumption of addr=
ess is 'illegal' ? I personally judge it to be unethical, but that is not t=
he same thing.
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> -George
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> PS since this goes to address policy, I need to declare that I work for a=
n RIR but I am posting in a personal capacity and nothing I say is a reflec=
tion of any RIR address policy. I work in the research department, not in r=
egistry/allocations
