[anti-abuse-wg] WHOIS (AS204224)

In message <563BDB1C.4020408 at yahoo.co.uk>, 
denis <ripedenis at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>On 05/11/2015 21:33, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>> In message <637758753.2826426.1446595528880.JavaMail.yahoo at mail.yahoo.com>,
>> ripedenis at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>>
>> With regards to this specific incident (and this specific set of what looks
>> to be 3 inter-related rogue ASNs) I myself don't really care which 1/5th of
>> the world they are stealing IP space from.  I just want to know who they
>> really are.  The region they are stealing from (at the moment) is almost
>> irrelevant.  By tomorrow, they'll be stealing from AFRINIC, and then
>> from LACNIC the day afrer that.
>
>This really does matter. Even with a valid RIPE ASN they cannot 'steal' 
>RIPE address space.

Really???

If so, that's great news!

Did everyone finally agree to use only fully authenticated route
announcement protocols while I was sleeping??  Or is BGP fundamentally
still wide open?

>When it comes to getting an ASN the AUT-NUM does require reference to a 
>PERSON/ROLE object. But you can pick any PERSON or ROLE object in the 
>database and reference them. Technically there is no cross checking. The 
>'owner' of those objects will not get notified. So unless the RIPE NCC 
>questions your choice of objects all the contact data in those objects 
>will be perfectly valid. They just have no relationship with you.

I would like to thank you for explaining this to me.  I really didn't
know this.  I _would_ actually thank you for bringing this to my
attention, but I'm really feeling very unwell all of of sudden.  I think
that I may vomit.  Plese excuse me.  I hope to be back later.


Regards,
rfg