ARIN Fraud Reporting Form ... Don't waste your time

Fri Oct 1 18:17:32 UTC 2010

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:32 AM, David Miller <dmiller at tiggee.com> wrote:
> I am merely refuting the statement, which I have heard many times in many
> different forums, that ARIN (or any RIR) makes address allocations and then
> walks away with no further active involvement in the use of these
> allocations.  This statement is simply not true.

David,

What *is* true is that ARIN's further involvement in the use of those
allocations is regulated by the policies that you and I wrote and
instructed ARIN to follow. Those policies include no actions to be
taken when a hijacker announces routes contrary to ARIN's registry
information. So long as ARIN's information has not been falsified,
forcing or not forcing folks to obey it is left for the ISPs to
resolve for themselves.

Do you think ARIN should should act as a clearinghouse for action with
respect to hijacked BGP announcements? Draft a policy proposal and
post it on the PPML. If your colleagues agree with you, that will
become one of ARIN's roles.

Until then, you criticize ARIN unfairly for doing what you and I have
told it to do.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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