I think it’s a general matter of public interest how this reassignment of a massive government-owned block of well over sixteen million IP addresses happened. Even if not fraudulent, the public has a right to know who is behind this huge transfer of wealth.
Don’t you?
Owen,
I think one cause for concern is why “almost all DOD prefixes (
7.0.0.0/8,11.0.0.0/8,22.0.0.0/8 and bunch of /22s) are now announced under
AS8003 (GRSCORP)
which was just formed a few months ago,” which, according to ARIN WHOIS, had a source registry of “DoD Network Information Center”.
Somehow, I’m of the impression that DoD is quite capable of defending their own property if necessary. I’m also not of the same belief as you that GRSCORP was just formed a few months ago. It seems to have bounced back and forth between Florida and Delaware one or more times, but that’s not all that uncommon for a corporation physically located in Florida. Corporations change their state of incorporation somewhat regularly for a variety of legal forum shopping purposes, including but not limited to tax advantages, court jurisdictional advantages, etc.
I think it’s a general matter of public interest how this reassignment of a massive government-owned block of well over sixteen million IP addresses happened. Even if not fraudulent, the public has a right to know who is behind this huge transfer of wealth.
I don’t see a transfer of wealth. I see DOD finally having a contractor originate their prefixes in order to make life more difficult for squatters, hijackers, and other miscreants. About time, if you ask me. I mean, I’m sure that in order to provide that level of sink-hole, GRSCORP is having to pay some hefty transit bills and maintain some significant infrastructure and likely passing all that cost along to DoD at a hefty markup, so I suppose that’s some level of transfer of wealth, but as DoD contracts go, I somehow don’t think this one would be regarded as “significant”.