<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"> <style></style> </head> <body lang="EN-IN" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"> <div class="WordSection1"> organisation: ORG-NL608-RIPE<o:p></o:p> org-name: Next Limited<o:p></o:p> country: HK<o:p></o:p> address: Rm 1405, 135 Bonham Strand Trade Centre, 135 Bonham Strand<o:p></o:p> address: HK<o:p></o:p> address: Sheung Wan<o:p></o:p> address: HONG KONG<o:p></o:p> phone: +44 20 8159 8328<o:p></o:p> admin-c: NEX7-RIPE<o:p></o:p> tech-c: NEX7-RIPE<o:p></o:p> abuse-c: NEX7-RIPE<o:p></o:p> mnt-ref: TELECOM-MNT<o:p></o:p> mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT<o:p></o:p> mnt-by: TELECOM-MNT<o:p></o:p> org-type: LIR<o:p></o:p> created: 2024-03-22T10:50:27Z<o:p></o:p> last-modified: 2024-03-26T15:17:14Z<o:p></o:p> source: RIPE # Filtered<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Hahah I used to live just down the road from this back in 2001-02 in Hong Kong.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Serviced / coworking office space on the lines of a Regus, Mailboxes Etc etc. Dozens of companies all crowded into that single room.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 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. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 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.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> That last thread was just over a decade ago if I remember right.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> --srs<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div id="mail-editor-reference-message-container"> <div> <div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"> From: anti-abuse-wg <anti-abuse-wg-bounces@ripe.net> on behalf of Natale Maria Bianchi <nmb@spamhaus.org> Date: Friday, 12 April 2024 at 5:51 PM To: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net <anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net> Subject: [anti-abuse-wg] On "very" fast IPv6-growing entities<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this mailing list, get a password reminder, or change your subscription options, please visit: <a href="https://mailman.ripe.net/">https://mailman.ripe.net/</a><o:p></o:p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>