[anti-abuse-wg] Hijack Factory: AS201640 / AS200002

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 12:32:48PM -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> In message <20141106150814.GX31092 at Space.Net>, 
> Gert Doering <gert at space.net> wrote:
[..]
> >(Yes, I understand that I'm now officially part of the problem, as
> >I'm obviously not willing to do everything technically possible to
> >stop particular sorts of badness)
> 
> To the extent that you might be able to avoid forwarding route
> announcements which originate from AS201640, allow me to express
> my personal opinion that doing so would be admirable.

This is, unfortunately, something where I have only very limited 
influence - our AS (5539) is mostly a leaf AS, so if I do not accept 
prefixes from this AS (which we indeed could and might do), the fraction
of Internet users that will no longer see 201640 is very small.

I'm certainly willing to help with the database issue that people
can register "out of region" route: objects in the RIPE DB - which
was, back in the day, fully intentional to be able to actually
register a *legitimate* routing policy that involves customers 
that legitimately(!) hold out-of-region IP networks (e.g. due to
international companies being active in multiple regions, or 
legacy networks that came from InterNIC).  Now this is backfiring, and
discussion (in the routing and database working group) has already
started how to handle this without causing collateral damage.

Gert Doering
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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