Using unallocated address space

Thu Feb 15 17:36:22 UTC 2001

At 21:53 15/02/01 +1000, Philip Smith wrote:

>At 22:56 12/02/2001 -0800, Sean Donelan wrote:
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>>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.
>
>And announcing both unallocated address space and unallocated AS space 
>will mean an entry in my little summary which I send out every week to 
>RIPE NCC, ARIN and APNIC mailing lists...
>
>I've see these:
>
>Network            Origin AS  Description
>39.96.40.224/30      14408     iCAIR
>50.198.0.0/16         2548     Digital Express Group, Inc.
>91.16.23.0/24        11770     Net56
>103.22.7.0/24         9768     PubNet (Korea Telecom)
>
>And the large amount of private and unallocated ASes has already been 
>mentioned on the list this week...
>
>Someone is watching, it's another issue what to do about it, if anything 
>can be done at all...

Has RIPE/ARIN/APNIC responded yet?  I can hound RIPE as well if you want.

-Hnak

>philip
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