[anti-abuse-wg] On "very" fast IPv6-growing entities

organisation:   ORG-NL608-RIPE

org-name:       Next Limited

country:        HK

address:        Rm 1405, 135 Bonham Strand Trade Centre, 135 Bonham Strand

address:        HK

address:        Sheung Wan

address:        HONG KONG

phone:          +44 20 8159 8328

admin-c:        NEX7-RIPE

tech-c:         NEX7-RIPE

abuse-c:        NEX7-RIPE

mnt-ref:        TELECOM-MNT

mnt-by:         RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT

mnt-by:         TELECOM-MNT

org-type:       LIR

created:        2024-03-22T10:50:27Z

last-modified:  2024-03-26T15:17:14Z

source:         RIPE # Filtered

Hahah I used to live just down the road from this back in 2001-02 in Hong Kong.

Serviced / coworking office space on the lines of a Regus, Mailboxes Etc etc.  Dozens of companies all crowded into that single room.

Reminds me of when RIPE was handing out /14s for the asking to various quite anonymous LIRs and then those ranges would get stuffed with snowshoe spam.  Back then I seem to remember someone right here telling me “v4 is running out anyway, v6 is the future” when I raised this.

I’d asked what’d happen if this same thing happened with v6 and got told that there’s so much v6 space around, worrying about IP shortages was just a waste of time. [paraphrasing here].  Somewhat similar to the “oh, we’ll never run out of v4, here, have another class C” from back in the good old days.

That last thread was just over a decade ago if I remember right.

--srs


From: anti-abuse-wg <anti-abuse-wg-bounces at ripe.net> on behalf of Natale Maria Bianchi <nmb at spamhaus.org>
Date: Friday, 12 April 2024 at 5:51 PM
To: anti-abuse-wg at ripe.net <anti-abuse-wg at ripe.net>
Subject: [anti-abuse-wg] On "very" fast IPv6-growing entities
This specific case is not involved with observed abuse, but it elicited my curiosity.
It is not the first time that I see such things, and I'd like to see what other
people think.

A GB entity with a ukrainian director, incorporated on 23 March 2024, gets an ASN
(AS215158) assigned by RIPE NCC on 05 April 2024, and now, just a week later, they
are announcing no less than ten /29 IPv6 networks regularly assigned to them:

2a11:e8c0::/29
2a11:ea80::/29
2a11:ff40::/29
2a12:1040::/29
2a12:2e80::/29
2a12:3c00::/29
2a12:8580::/29
2a12:8a00::/29
2a12:9300::/29
2a12:d080::/29

That is quite a bit of space, indicating the entrance in the field of a large
communication company making a large investment on infrastructure in preparation
for a sizable number of users. So you look for their website, but in vain.  They do not
even expose their domain in the RIPE database, just a mailbox on a freemail.

So my curiosities are:
- what will this huge IPv6 space be used for?
- what is the business area of this company?
- can any individual easily grab ten /29's just for the fun of it, since there are
  plenty of them (2^29) before we need to think about 512-bit IPv8?
- shouldn't the intended usage be made publicly visible somehow, so that the community
  can see how and why the space is used, and statistics can be made? (if it is already,
  I apologize and will appreciate pointers).

Natale M Bianchi
Spamhaus Project


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