On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com> wrote:
I'd welcome comments as to solutions to this. Or is it just scaremongering? Probably scaremongering... but it does raise an interesting thought.
It provides another argument why RIRs don't need to abandon justified need as a mandatory criteria for transferring addresses to specified recipients out of fear that legacy and other holders will engage in "unofficial" sales and transfers that they intentionally fail to record via WHOIS. The legacy holder/unofficial transferror would be putting the reputation of their entire address block, and their other allocations at risk; if the buyer eventually hands some of the unofficial allocation to a spammer, either by accident, or intentionally, doesn't matter. The holder of addresses that unofficially transferred them, could have some major headaches, including service-affecting headaches to their network... just to sell spare IP addresses faster for a few extra bucks; when there is a legitimate process available that doesn't have that risk?
j -- -JH