[98293] in North American Network Operators' Group
Questions about populating RIR with customer information.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Weaver)
Wed Aug 1 09:41:56 2007
From: Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com>
To: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:47:45 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Up until recently, we were only providing the RIR database with inf=
ormation about our larger allocations /24 or larger. We have noticed howeve=
r that many anti-spam organizations such as Spamhaus, and Fiveten will use =
the lack of information regarding an IP allocation as a blank check to blac=
klist entire /24s when they are really targeting a single /30 or a /29. As =
such we are examining publishing information for all allocations in the RIR=
database (/30s, /29s, etc). My question, mostly is related to the privacy =
of the customer whom the space is being allocated to. Has anyone ever had a=
n issue where they have published a user's information and the user had an =
issue with it? Is there some way that we can 'proxy' the information so tha=
t it simply states that the /29 has been allocated to a customer but it doe=
sn't provide their contact information?
Most of our customers are co-location and dedicated hosting custome=
rs and we are simply unsure whether or not there are implications (legal or=
otherwise) in publishing our customer data in a public RIR database.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Sorry if this is the wrong place to =
ask.
Thanks,
-Drew
