selling PA as PI

   Hi,

 I'm working for a ISP in Romania which is also a LIR. The biggest LIR in
Romania RNC (ro.rnc) received a /15 PA block from RIPE last month. They
are selling prefixes (yes selling, they charge different amounts for different
space: $50 for a /28 up to $230 for a /24) to almost anyone who wants IPs,
even they are not connected to RNC. Basically they sell the PA space as
PI, since they are not advertising the PA block and the prefixes are
announced in Internet by other ISPs.
 80.96/15 is not the only block sold as PI space, they have many PA
blocks distributed to customers connected to other ISPs (for example our
customers have about 60 * /24 prefixes from 217.156/17 PA block allocated
to RNC).
 What can we do to stop this practice?


inetnum:      80.96.0.0 - 80.97.255.255
netname:      RO-RNC-20010705
descr:        National Institute for R|&D in Informatics
descr:        Provider Local Registry
country:      RO
admin-c:      ES16
tech-c:       CH7396-RIPE
status:       ALLOCATED PA
mnt-by:       RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
mnt-lower:    AS3233-MNT
mnt-routes:   AS3233-MNT
changed:      hostmaster at ripe.net 20010705
source:       RIPE


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Bogdan Surdu

Romania Data Systems S.A.
E-mail: tim at rdsnet.ro
Tel: +40 1 30 10 850
Fax: +40 1 30 10 851

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