[57951] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Get as much IP space as you ever dreamed of, was: Re: Looking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Mon Apr 28 17:55:41 2003
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 21:54:59 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris@UU.NET>
To: Daniel Golding <dgold@FDFNet.Net>
Cc: Kai Schlichting <kai@pac-rim.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030428163720.E7653-100000@paradox.fdfnet.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Daniel Golding wrote:
>
> While its certainly wrongb to steal IPs like this, some of the blame
> must go to the RIRs. They should be repo-ing this space. I realize they
> engage in much handwrining over their "lack of authority", but authority
> to route address space is, for all intents and purposes, given by those
> who actually do the routing. Furthermore, ARIN has a large warchest for
> defending against legal challenges.
>
> ARIN needs to repo any space that has been advertised for a reasonable
> length of time, and reissue it.
>
Should any of the ISP community hold any responsibility to help the RIR's
pull this space back when they are hijacked? I would think
ARIN/RIPE/APNIC would like to see ISP's email them blocks that are
hijacked so they can reclaim them, or put them into a holding pen while
they attempt to contact the owners... (then reclaim if no contacts can be
made)
-Chris
