Lightly used IP addresses
Owen DeLong
owen at delong.com
Fri Aug 13 23:16:31 UTC 2010
On Aug 13, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Ken Chase wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 02:15:51PM -0400, John R. Levine said:
>>>> I don't entirely understand the process. Here's the flow chart as far
>>>> as I've figured it out:
>>>>
>>>> 1. A sells a /20 of IPv4 space to B for, say, $5,000
>>>>
>>>> 2. A tells ARIN to transfer the chunk to B
>>>>
>>>> 3. ARIN says no, B hasn't shown that they need it
>>>>
>>>> 4. A and B say screw it, and B announces the space anyway
>>>>
>>>> 5. ???
>>>
>>> 6. ARIN receives a fraud/abuse complaint that A's space is being used
>>> by B.
>>> 7. ARIN discovers that A is no longer using the space in accordance
>>> with their RSA
>>> 8. ARIN reclaims the space and A and B are left to figure out who owes
>>> what to whom.
>>
>> 9. A and B ignore ARIN's email and continue to announce what they've been
>> announcing.
>>
>> 10. ARIN attempts to allocate the /20 to someone else, who is not amused.
>>
>> Note that at this point ARIN presumably has no more v4 space left, so a
>> threat never to allocate more space to A or B isn't very scary. Given its
>> limited practical leverage, ARIN is only effective insofar as its members
>> and customers agree that playing by ARIN's rules is more beneficial than
>> ignoring them.
>
> Right, and Im answering my own question here, for (8) about the reclaiming -
> what upstream is going to stop carrying prefixes from a downstream that's
> 'illegally' announcing them? Is this upstream going to cut that customer off and
> lose the revenue, just to satisfy ARIN's bleating? From what I gather, all that
> ARIN can do is remove the NS records for the i-a.a reverse zone for the offending
> block, making SMTP a little trickier from the block, but not much else.
>
ARIN can do quite a bit more if the resources are under RSA. If they are legacy
resources (which I don't believe there are such things as legacy /20s), then,
it's a bit murkier, but, I wouldn't completely count ARIN out.
> Unless I didnt see the other large sticks ARIN's carrying? I've never seen them
> send hired goons to anyone's door... yet?
Contract law anyone? Perhaps you should re-read your RSAs.
Owen
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