Using unallocated address space

Thu Feb 15 17:31:52 UTC 2001

At 22:56 12/02/01 -0800, Sean Donelan wrote:

>On Mon, 12 February 2001, John Fraizer wrote:
> > Any time a network is caught announcing non-allocated address space, the
> > registry should bill them accordingly.  If they refuse to pay, the
> > registry should yank their ASN.  That would be strong encouragement to do
> > the right thing.
>
>Other than making it difficult for people to figure out WHOIS using that
>ASN, "yanking" an ASN's registration has little practical effect.  You
>can use an un-allocated ASN almost as easily as using an un-allocated
>address block.

The registries, ARIN/RIPE/APNIC should announce the offending block 
themselves and shunt it to null0.  If the offender announces a /18 then 
they should announce theirs as 2x/19s and thereby override the bogus /18.

I don't think the problem is so huge that a few dozen extra prefixes 
announced by the registries will bloat and kill the routing table size.  If 
the registries don't do this, these cybersquatters will come thru later on 
and demand to keep the IP address space they have grabbed just as the .sex, 
and .web and all the other alternate DNSers have done.

-Hank