Why are paper LOAs still used?

Mon Feb 26 19:13:31 UTC 2024

A paper LOA is a legally binding document, an IRR record is an IRR record.

Falsifying an LOA that is transmitted digitally is wire fraud and can
basically be handed right over to a DA for injunction and prosecution.

Falsifying IRR records on the other hand leaves more work for the ISP's
lawyers to walk a judge (and jury) through the entire purpose and use of
that system, as opposed to "here's a super important sheet of paper that
they lied on case closed".

-Matt

On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 11:57 AM Seth Mattinen via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>
wrote:

> Why do companies still insist on, or deploy new systems that rely on
> paper LOA for IP and ASN resources? How can this be considered more
> trustworthy than RIR based IRR records?
>
> And I'm not even talking about old companies, I have a situation right
> now where a VPS provider I'm using will no longer use IRR and only
> accepts new paper LOAs. In the year 2024. I don't understand how anyone
> can go backwards like that.
>
> ~Seth
>

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Matt Erculiani
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