On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Leo Vegoda <leo.vegoda@icann.org> wrote:
On Sep 9, 2009, at 7:18 PM, Alex Lanstein wrote:
Along the same lines, I noticed that the worst Actor in recent memory (McColo - AS26780) stopped paying their bills to ARIN and their addresses have been returned to the pool.
It's my opinion that a very select number of CIDR blocks (another example being the ones belonging to Cernel/InternetPath/Atrivo/etc, if it were ever fully extinguished) are, and forever will be, completely toxic and unusable to any legitimate enterprise. Arguments could be made that industry blacklists can and should be more flexible, but from the considerably more innocuous case in this thread, that is apparently not the modus operandi
Putting these addresses back into use does not mean that they have to be allocated to networks where they'll number mail servers. ARIN staff is doubtless aware of the history of these blocks and will presumably do their best to allocate them to networks that aren't intended to host mail servers.
Regards,
Leo
Not sure when ICANN got into the business of economic bailouts, but the mechanism that ICANN has defined seems patently unfair. Determining who is worthy of allocations based on a class without community input into a policy debate is "bad". ObOps: Chasing down all of this grunge ain't cheap or fair. Best, Martin -- Martin Hannigan martin@theicelandguy.com p: +16178216079 Power, Network, and Costs Consulting for Iceland Datacenters and Occupants