On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 03:44:46PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
No, it's due to "completely useless math". There are just many more actors in the RIPE area, so the same amount of criminals spread over *twice* the amount of RIR members is not "higher concentration" but "lower".
The number of "criminals per IP address" is indeed higher, yes. But what exactly is the use of that metric, except to show "ARIN has a larger share from the hoard of /8s"?
Not going to argue with that. That indicator was just one like many others. I clearly failed to make my main point across: my main purpose was not to state that the RIPE area is "worse" than the ARIN area, and actually it do not think it really matters which one is worse. Let us just say that the situation is bad (and there seems to be consensus on this). My main point was in the second half of the post, and concerned the meaning of "invalid resources", their long lifetime, the fact that the current system is favoring people that lie about resource usage, while in fact the opposite should be the case. furio ercolessi