On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 09:33:42PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
In message <CAFV686e9aa8xhACUz+ePfbELU74MPcE-2PiC2-kpU-1xAptxFA@mail.gmail.com> Jacob Slater <jacob@rezero.org> wrote:
All I know is that the RIPE WHOIS data base contains, among much other stuff, route: object which generally document what is generally believed to be information about properly authorized (by the affected resources holder) routing permissions. If there exists information about properly authorized
Right now, only the prefix owner needs to authorise the route: object. In the past, the ASN needed to be authorised as well but this proved unworkable in practice.
Second, although the word "vigilante" has, in the modern era, come to have much negative connotation, there was quite certainly was a time and place when and where that was not so. I am speaking specifically of the American West in the time before it became entirely civilized and in the time before it had a full compliment of established legislatures, established laws, established courts, established (and paid) law enforcement agents, and all of the other bits, pieces, and accoutrements, of what we all, in the modern era, think of as a properly functioning system of justice. In that time and place early settlers did often band together in order to enforce at least some sense of community-backed justice. It wasn't always pretty, and it wasn't always fair or just, but in the absence of officially authorized systems of justice, it was often all that those early settlers had to defend themselves from the unjust tyrany of the strong against the weak.
True, and when that became out-of-control and abusive the government would send the cavalry and the marshals and restore some semblance of rule of law. (at least that is how I remember it worked in Western films) I wonder whether it is time to issue movement warnings to the cavalry... rgds, SL