[194040] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Purchased IPv4 Woes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brielle Bruns)
Sun Mar 12 13:14:57 2017
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To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Brielle Bruns <bruns@2mbit.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 11:11:59 -0600
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On 3/12/17 9:11 AM, Chuck Church wrote:
> Maybe a silly idea, but shouldn't the sale of a block of addresses
> (RIR ownership change) trigger a removal of that block from all
> reputation list databases? If I buy a car from a police auction, I'm
> fairly sure the FBI doesn't start tailing me, because the car was
> once used for less than legal purposes. New owner, clean slate.
>
No.
No verifiable way to confirm that a block has actually changed hands,
and not just had its user/POC renamed, sold to 'new' owner to dodge
bankruptcy/creditors, etc.
And just because a car was bought at police auction doesn't mean it has
no bad things associated with it anymore - such as drugs in the walls of
the passenger doors, or the FBI tracking device under the front driver
wheel well.
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Brielle Bruns
The Summit Open Source Development Group
http://www.sosdg.org / http://www.ahbl.org
