[anti-abuse-wg] 196.52.0.0/14 revoked, cleanup efforts needed

In message <CAOGGzqzmG0wUNbsYo=hjd=+RcNaosOWGLN0jqWBgTJmxPhpR-A at mail.gmail.com>, 
Ostap Efremov <kkind690 at gmail.com> wrote:

>196.52.0.0/14 was recently revoked.

Confirmed.  It appears that AFRINIC returned that /14 to its free pool.

>Before it was revoked, the whois for this /14 was:
>
>> inetnum:        196.52.0.0 - 196.55.255.255
>> netname:        LogicWeb-Inc
>> descr:          LogicWeb Inc.
>> descr:          3003 Woodbridge Ave
>> descr:          Edison, NJ 08837
>> country:        ZA

Confirmed.  Please note however that contrary to all rumors, Edison,
New Jersey is -not- actually located in "ZA" (South Africa).

>I believe this /14 was under control from our big friend from Israel...

No.

This block -somehow- made its way... for some several years anyway...
directly into the hands of a certain Mr. Chad Abizeid, proprietor of
LogicWeb, in New Jersey, most specifically the one that's located in
in the U.S..  There's no involvement of any Israeli personages with
this specific block as far as I can determine.

>This is a BOGON, unallocated space.

Yes.  *Now* it is.

>I would appreciate if any network that is on that list and on this mailing
>list, would stop announcing parts of this hijacked /14.

That would be Good, yes.

>I reached out to  RADB to remove all the radb entries concerning this /14,
>however after 72 hours they still haven't.

In my experience, neither accuracy nor security are among RADB's strong
suits.

>How is it possible that they can't just delete all entries?

Other things just take priority sometimes, you know.

Have you never heard of Tetris?

>It is UNALLOCATED SPACE, it shouldn't be routed, it shouldn't have radb.

Well, yea.  But also, we in these United States should not have had to live
with four full years of totally unprecedented social lunacy, the likes of
which none of us have ever before known in our entire lives.  But we have
fixed that now.  Sometimes you just have to be patient.  These things take
time.


Regards,
rfg