Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> wrote:
Petra.Zeidler--- via ripe-list <ripe-list@ripe.net> wrote:
In cases of someone using "fallow" resources without authorization by the formal resource holder, would you also blame the RIPE database for having incorrect info? Isn't this why the RIRs send out these yearly reminders to verify contact info?
You are smallACME corp and have an assignment of a.b.c/23 that you only use internally, for a VPN with partners (which used to be a legit reason to get public IP space) and that you don't (have) announce(d) on the Internet. Meanwhile Baddie Inc has seen that there is an assignment that is not in use on the Internet, and announces and uses it for questionable things. If RIPE asks you (smallACME corp) if you are the user of a.b.c/23 and if contacts etc.pp. are correct, you answer yes. Yet for the purposes of someone looking for who is using a.b.c/23 on the Internet, the database entries are wrong. Is that the databases fault? (I had something like that ~25 years ago; if there hadn't been an abuse complaint to my then employer as responsible LIR, no-one would have noticed, the space was PI. Getting the unauthorized use to stop wasn't trivial.) Kind regards, Petra Zeidler —————————————————————————— Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) Deutsches Fernerkundungsdatenzentrum | DFD-INF | Oberpfaffenhofen, Münchener Str. 20 | 82234 Weßling Petra Zeidler Telefon +49 8153 28 4295 | Telefax +49 8153 28 1448 | petra.zeidler@dlr.de | http://www.dlr.de/eoc