In message <94320.1553230125@segfault.tristatelogic.com>, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com> writes
In message <Hb1CgOCoY9kcFAKS@highwayman.com>, Richard Clayton <richard@highwayman.com> wrote:
Yes hijacks can be simple to understand -- but they can be very complex and perfectly legitimate activity can look like a hijack until a lot of detail has been considered.
I'm a simple minded man, and I guess I'm perplexed by this.
Isn't the whole point of route registries generally and RIPE's in particular supposed to be to make it easy for pretty much any arbitrary outsider to look at a given block and a given route to that block and conclude that the two -do- in fact properly go together, or conversely, that they do not?
not everything is in a route registry --- and you may recall some previous work that I did showing that the mere presence of entries in a route registry is no guarantee that it reflects an actual peering arrangement: <https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2015/11/02/ongoing-badness-in-the- ripe-database/> note of course that some changes have been made since then which improve the situation as regards out-of-area space -- richard Richard Clayton Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin 11 Nov 1755