[34583] in North American Network Operators' Group
Using unallocated address space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Tue Feb 13 01:59:04 2001
Date: 12 Feb 2001 22:56:55 -0800
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From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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On Mon, 12 February 2001, John Fraizer wrote:
> Any time a network is caught announcing non-allocated address space, the
> registry should bill them accordingly. If they refuse to pay, the
> registry should yank their ASN. That would be strong encouragement to do
> the right thing.
Other than making it difficult for people to figure out WHOIS using that
ASN, "yanking" an ASN's registration has little practical effect. You
can use an un-allocated ASN almost as easily as using an un-allocated
address block.
