[46602] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Perspective on ARIN allocations to non-American entities
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Schwartz)
Fri Apr 5 23:35:27 2002
From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
To: <brian@meganet.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 20:34:42 -0800
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On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 22:56:46 -0500 (EST), Brian Wallingford=
wrote:
>I've searched the IANA and ICANN sites, and have found no=
justification
>for what appear to be ARIN allocations to foreign entities=
within
>66.231.
>
>Two serious UCE/hacking attempt offenders are as follows:
>66.231.64.0/20 GIGA-BLK-1
=09Last I checked, Columbia was part of South America. The 'A' in=
Arin means
America, the two continents.
>66.231.128.0/20 ECON-BLK-1
>
>Both of which appear to be completely unapologetic for their=
users'
>activities and refuse to take any action against repeat=
offenders
>(10's of thousands of attempts per week here). Why have these=
blocks
>apparently been allocated via ARIN?
>
>Am I missing something?
=09I'm not sure what you think ARIN has to do with UCE/hacking.=
ARIN allocates
IP addresses. The regional splitting of the registries is more=
for reasons of
convenience than anything else and I don't believe there's any=
special reason
ARIN should deny a request just because the addressees will be=
using the
block out-of-the region. (Though it is recommended that you use=
the registry
for your region.)
=09It is common for companies with a presence in multiple regions=
to deal with
a single regional registry and then use the blocks where they=
actually need
them. This is much better than them using two for a variety of=
reasons
including that it makes the registry better able to assess the=
justification.
So a multinational company might request all the blocks it needs=
through ARIN
and it's U.S. office.
=09What benefit do you think a policy of strictly enforcing region=
boundaries
would have?
=09DS
