FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

Tue Jan 7 10:16:44 UTC 2020

On 7/Jan/20 12:01, Martijn Schmidt via NANOG wrote:
> Out of curiosity, since we aren't affected by this ourselves, I know
> of cases where Cogent has sub-allocated IP space to its customers but
> which those customers originate from their own ASN and then announce
> to multiple upstream providers.
>
> So while the IP space is registered to Cogent and allocated to its
> customer, the AS-path might be something like ^174_456$ but it's
> entirely possible that ARIN would observe it as ^123_456$ instead. Are
> such IP address blocks affected by the suspension?

Well, they would certainly be blocked by RPKI unless ROA's for those
originations are created.

Mark.