AFRINIC: The Saga Continues

Thu Jan 30 13:51:49 UTC 2020

On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 19:51:17 -0800
"Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:

> A full list of all of the stolen AFRINIC blocks that are still of
> ongoing concern at the present moment, taking into account the above
> adjustments, is available here:
> 
>     https://pastebin.com/raw/71zNNriB
> 
> Note that many of the blocks listed at the link above have already
> been "reclaimed" as far as the AFRINIC WHOIS records are concerned.
> But because routing remains almost entirely decoupled from RIR WHOIS
> data bases, much of this "reclaimed" space is still being routed as
> I write this.  The only difference is that now the space is being
> routed as bogons, rather than as "legitimately" allocated space.
> 

Rightful owners should create RPKI ROAs, what can help, since some
large networks have deployed origin validation and drop RPKI invalids. 