Gert Doering wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 07:21:36AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
The RIPE community should, as a whole, be more operationally focused on this loss of a scarce shared resource by allocating large parts of it to entities that use these for a very short time before
Since IPv4 is going to run out anyway, what difference does "extend lots of effort to gain a few month" make here?
I can see and share the desire to stop criminals using network resources, but the argument about "the big problem is waste of scarce resources" just doesn't fly with me - as it will not make a big difference one way or the other.
IPv4 is to be used for quite some time. The miscreant community will turn their focus to allocated but unused address space and AS resources. We just handled an incident where an AS belonging to a finnish telco was advertised via an AS in Russia. The /24 had a valid route object for this AS - this had been left to the DB by accident. We should look on more strict policies on appropriate registration of address space delegations in use and deregistration when the resources are taken out of service. Needless to say, the finnish provider in question was slightly surprised to see a resource delegated to them appear behind a RU provider. RIPE NCC could have a role in looking after disrepancies between routing database and live global BGP routing table.. --Kauto -- Kauto Huopio - kauto.huopio@ficora.fi Senior information security adviser Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority / CERT-FI tel. +358-9-6966772, fax +358-9-6966515, mobile +358-50-5826131 CERT-FI watch desk daytime: +358-9-6966510 / http://www.cert.fi