[anti-abuse-wg] RIPE policy

In message <AANLkTim89Ca=Tyq2an+w2YPX==7XGBfmTqnjEjM_SLU0 at mail.gmail.com>,
Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

>Acquiring extremely large netblocks solely for net abuse is something
>that goes on, on a grand scale in the RIPE region, compared to any
>other RIR in the world

For the record (and having some substantial knowledge in this particular
area) let me just say that Suresh is right, but only in so far as he attached
the word "extremely".

Here in the ARIN region, the questionable aqusition of sizable netblocks
"solely for net abuse' is also unfortunately widespread (and one might
even say rampant) but the size of the individual blocks tends to be smaller...
but there are more of them.  Innumerable /24s in ARIN-land have gone over
to the Dark Side, and even the occasional recycled /16.

But I do sort-of recall one particular brand-spankin'-new /15 that got
assigned out of RIPE space... not really that long ago... to some Romanians,
I think, who promptly filled the whole bleedin' thing up with snowshoe spam
domains.  That certainly was eye opening.

But I don't think it is productive to call out any particular RiRs for
doing less than what could be done to fight this sort of thing.  There
is plenty of blame to go around, and blame ain't gonna solve the problem.


Regards,
rfg