[anti-abuse-wg] Mysteries of the Internet: AS65000

In message <rr9JsgDrv9scFAsh at highwayman.com>, 
Richard Clayton <richard at highwayman.com> wrote:

>Hurricane Electric is seeing announcements from other ASs some of which
>have AS65000 declared to be origin of the prefix

I understand.  The announcements are, in effect, mislabled.

>Best practice is to remove internal use AS's from announcements -- not
>much bad happens if you don't (well, you might not get as much
>reachability if other folk are also using that reserved AS within their
>networks...)

Is anybody anywhere filtering out this kind of malarkey?

>>The only other thing I feel compelled to say, or ask right now, is just
>>this:   Who should I be notifying if there is an issue with this ASN?
>
>the NOC for the people making the incorrect announcement

Yes.  And can you tell me who that is please?

I'm asking for a bit of help here, because I'm out of my depth.  But
judging from the short bio sketch of you that I just now read on your
personal web page, this would seem to be right up your alley.


Regards,
rfg