[address-policy-wg] 2022-02 New Policy Proposal (Remove mandatory IPv4 PA assignment registration in the RIPE Database)

Hi Jan,

On Wed, 19 Oct 2022 at 05:26, Jan Ingvoldstad <frettled at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 9:37 AM James Kennedy <jameskennedy001 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Under current policy, the LIRs should register 14,744 - 29,488 additional Assignment inetnums in the RIPE database. What value would that bring?
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> It brings value in resolving technical issues and IP address abuse issues, e.g. contacting the correct party when a compromised server participates in DDoS, spamming/phishing, etc.
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> Contacting the LIR only vaguely makes sense, it's like contacting the domain registrar because someone is sending phishing mail from gmail.com. In other words, mostly completely useless.

Can you please expand on this? People without your experience might
not understand the processes you are referring to. Can you explain the
problems that users need to resolve and the value that registration of
small assignments in the database brings?

> Additionally, introducing this policy change without also doing something about historical records, seems pointless.

Can you expand on this, too?

Many thanks,

Leo Vegoda, Address Policy WG co-chair