[anti-abuse-wg] Use of RIPE region space by out-of-region users, was RIPE policy

Ronald,

On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 20:45 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:

> I posted lists of IP addresses and domain names within several ``RIPE'' IP
> address blocks that I allege have been handed over for use by American
> bulk e-mail advertising companies.  (If you no longer have that e-mail or
> those lists I will be happy to re-send them to you.)

Looking at the first IP address in your list:

shane at madras:~$ mtr --report --report-wide 109.177.8.2
HOST: madras                              Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1. hosted.by.leaseweb.com               0.0%    10    1.4   1.1   0.4   1.5   0.5
  2. te0-3-0-3.crs.tc2.leaseweb.net       0.0%    10    1.5   1.0   0.4   1.5   0.6
  3. ae4-30.RT.TC2.AMS.NL.retn.net        0.0%    10    1.6   2.1   0.4  13.6   4.1
  4. ae1-9.RT.MR.MSK.RU.retn.net          0.0%    10   46.9  46.3  45.7  46.9   0.6
  5. GW-Synterra.retn.net                 0.0%    10   52.3  54.4  51.1  78.3   8.4
  6. msk-d2-hq-ae2.main.synterra.ru       0.0%    10   55.4  58.5  54.3  88.7  10.6
  7. GW-OOO171Enlink187.main.synterra.ru  0.0%    10   55.0  56.7  54.7  67.0   3.7
  8. 94.231.116.62                        0.0%    10   58.2  58.9  58.2  60.0   0.7
  9. ???                                 100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
 10. 109.177.8.2                         10.0%    10  212.4 211.9 211.3 212.5   0.5

These addresses appear to be hosted in Russia. Probably a Russian
company is selling hosting service to American advertisers.

AFAIK there have never been rules about who you can provide services to
with the address blocks you have been given. I would object strongly to
a proposal to do so.

--
Shane