Suresh, On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 09:24 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
v4 netblocks are not candy to be handed around for the asking, are they? Not sure.
I don't understand what you are trying to say. Can you please say what you mean in simple English? Perhaps you are implying that the RIPE community or the RIPE NCC should do something to revoke address space from networks used for certain activities? If that's what you mean, please just say it, then we can discuss the basic idea as well as details.
2/8 and 46/8 are relatively new too ..
Looking at the /14 that you referenced:
SBL102988 2.56.0.0/14 RIPE 06-Feb-2011 02:46 GMT Michael Lindsay / iMedia Networks AS44559 spammer blocks
Looking at the latest record in the database it seems like the block is about to be pulled for non-payment: remarks: The RIPE NCC will reclaim this allocation remarks: Please email billing@ripe.net changed: hostmaster@ripe.net 20100927 changed: hostmaster@ripe.net 20110118 Perhaps you think this should happen faster. In which case, please go ahead and propose such a change. Thanks! -- Shane