[anti-abuse-wg] [routing-wg] An arrest in Russia

In message <20200103165918.GL72330 at Space.Net>, 
Gert Doering <gert at space.net> wrote:

>On Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 04:14:07PM +0000, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>> So the RIR has absolutely no role in maintaining say IRR data?  I agree
>validating LOAs and such for routing changes would be on providers.  Though 
>if the changes were to be made in IRR data who would validate it?
>
>IRR data is authenticated by registry data in RIPE land, if the resource
>holder chooses so.  Short story.
>
>So, nobody can create routes for, say, my address space unless I
>authorize that.

Yes.  Nowadays, the RIPE IRR is better in this respect than any other IRR
that I am aware of.

Don't even get me started about RADB!  They don't check anything, and there
are stale entires in there from 10+ years go for routes to bogons.  As far
as I can tell, there is zero quality control and zero maintenance, the
result being that it has become one big playground for routing crooks.


Regards,
rfg