Re: AS11296 -- Hijacked?

[John Curran <jcurran () arin net>]

George -
   Full agreement; the next step is defining a deterministic process for identifying these specific resources which are 
hijacked, and then making a policy for ARIN to act.  We have a duty of stewardship, so addressing this problem is a 
priority if the community directs us to do so via policy.

/John

On Oct 1, 2010, at 5:12 PM, George Bonser <gbonser () seven com> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christopher Morrow 
> > Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 7:46 AM
> > To: Rich Kulawiec
> > Cc: nanog () nanog org
> > Subject: Re: AS11296 -- Hijacked?
> >
> > this is still less than a /8, which lasts ~3 months in ARIN region and
> > less if you could across RIR's...
>
> Which is sort of like saying:
>
> Citizen: "Hello, police?  There is a crate of M-16's and a truckload of
> ammunition just sitting here on the corner"
> Police:  "That is less than the Army goes through in 3 months ...
> *click*"
>
> While true, it is orthogonal to the point being made which is if you
> collect those resources and issue them to legitimate operators, those
> are some 6.6 million unique hosts addresses than cannot be used for
> various nefarious activities.