There have been previous incidents in the ARIN region .. Nothing on the grand scale of what Ron is describing, and just saying, Arin does liaise with the Anti spam world rather better than this. On Wednesday, January 16, 2013, William Herrin wrote:
Hi Rich,
Since this is NANOG, not a forum which represents Internet activities on the Continent, perhaps a better set of questions would be:
1. Has SPAMHAUS attempted to feed relevant portions of their knowledge into ARIN's reporting system for fraudulent registrations and,
2. Understanding that ARIN can only deal with fraudulent registrations, not any other kind of bad-actor behavior, are there improvements to ARIN's process which would help SPAMHAUS and similar organizations feed ARIN actionable knowledge?
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