[190298] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv4 Legacy assignment frustration
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alastair Johnson)
Wed Jun 22 09:44:40 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: "Spurling, Shannon" <shannon@more.net>,
'Christopher Morrow' <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>,
Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
From: Alastair Johnson <aj@sneep.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 06:44:34 -0700
In-Reply-To: <A70F8E3612EA89458171DFBAA8A2A8DC83AD2F8D@UM-MBX-T03.um.umsystem.edu>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On 6/22/16 6:36 AM, Spurling, Shannon wrote:
> It’s a problem with the miss-use of the RIR delegation of a legacy
> block.
>
> The assumption that because a block is assigned to a particular RIR,
> all users in that block have to be in that RIR’s territory, without
> actually running a query against that RIR’s Whois database.
I don't think it's an RIR / RIR-related problem, just - as you said - a
short-sighted security practice.
Operators that connect to the Internet and then decide "OMG, Asia is
evil" are fairly frustrating. This has caused me a number of problems
for decades, as AU/NZ are fairly frequent trading partners of USA and I
have frequently run into this attitude.
