Additionally, examples of impersonating a corporate entity to acquire unused IP space (Erie Forge and Steel's /16, anyone?) undoubtedly fall under existing, pre-internet interstate commerce fraud laws...

http://web.mit.edu/net-security/Camp/2003/DBowie_IP_Hijacking.pdf

https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/files/edited-iphd-2.ppt



On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 9:54 AM John Curran <jcurran@arin.net> wrote:
On 20 Jan 2021, at 12:17 PM, Bryan Fields <Bryan@bryanfields.net> wrote:

AFAIK IANA and the RIR's cannot enforce use of IP space assignments on any
network.

<chuckle>  While route hijacking isn't necessarily an ARIN issue, I will note that several US law enforcement agencies (FBI & NCIS Cybercrime units) are quite interested in such events and do investigate them looking for criminal activity.   

(See https://pc.nanog.org/static/published/meetings/NANOG77/2108/20191028_Elverson_Your_As_Is_v1.pdf for details.) 

FYI,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers