On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com> wrote:
Here in the ARIN region, the questionable aqusition of sizable netblocks "solely for net abuse' is also unfortunately widespread (and one might even say rampant) but the size of the individual blocks tends to be smaller... but there are more of them. Innumerable /24s in ARIN-land have gone over to the Dark Side, and even the occasional recycled /16.
These have mostly been acquired by providers who then allocate it further to customers. As for the recycled /16s those are cases - well known sometimes, such as the sfbay packet radio netblock (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/04/a_case_of_network_ident...) of defunct companies being "revived" for the sake of a unused /16 that's in their hands .. What we see in the RIPE region is a series of assigned PI and PA netblocks. Large ones. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)