Get as much IP space as you ever dreamed of

Mon Apr 28 23:04:19 UTC 2003

On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 09:54:59PM +0000, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Daniel Golding wrote:
> > While its certainly wrongb to steal IPs like this, some of the blame
> > must go to the  RIRs. They should be repo-ing this space. I realize 
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> 
> Should any of the ISP community hold any responsibility to help the 
> RIR's pull this space back when they are hijacked? I would think

You presume that no-one is doing that (hint: many of us are), and that 
any action is taken (if so, none is visible).

Kai's post is not fiction. Guess what? A lot (not all) squatters get
caught quite nicely in those "evil" prefix length filters. If you HAVE 
an allocation and for some reason just announce deaggregates, to a 
third party you look *just* like the black hats. How does this help 
your reachability while you're grazing on the commons?  

Think about that for a second before the knee jerks up. 

Cheers,

Joe

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