[anti-abuse-wg] RIPE policy

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette
<rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:
> 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.

These have mostly been acquired by providers who then allocate it
further to customers.

As for the recycled /16s those are cases - well known sometimes, such
as the sfbay packet radio netblock
(http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/04/a_case_of_network_identity_the_1.html)
of defunct companies being "revived" for the sake of a unused /16
that's in their hands ..

What we see in the RIPE region is a series of assigned PI and PA
netblocks.  Large ones.

-- 
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists at gmail.com)