On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 11:13 PM Majdi S. Abbas <msa@latt.net> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 11:02:40PM -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote:
So.. this is/was a legacy allocation, right? with some 'not great' contact/etc info...
It's been announced by UCSD as a /8, consistently available, with tunnel services and rDNS available on a consistent basis, for a long time.
The folks involved are not hard to find and never have been.
Amusingly, they still seem to be advertising the covering aggregate, so I guess the Cal system is going to provide transit to Amazon? Do the Regents know about this arrangement?
who knows? probably? not really my personal concern I guess.
the ARIN folk could have said: "Well.... sure! if the current folk who control access can positively show they do AND they don't mind parting with a /10... ok?"
... I'm not sure this would make the 44/8 allocation anything but a bogon, or ARIN WHOIS & RPKI a reliable resource for the community. Potentially quite the contrary.
I'm not sure how you're quite going in this direction...
If I start advertising space, and can show I thusly "control" it, can I monetize it, too? I could use "some millions."
My guess is that arin needed more than just: "can control routing for a few bits of time". I don't really know, but I hope they had more requirements than that :) I suppose though, are you more upset that the radio folk now have some endowment (or what-have-you) or that the block is getting somewhat chopped up? their blog seems to indicate that there is plenty of space left, more than they'd allocated previously (though I don't see any actioal records). They also state that the trust which was setup previously controled the space and dealt with ARIN + the buyer. it SEEMS above board... more above board than some other transactions I've seen in the last while :( Does it serve the larger community to get the space under RSA and potentially signed in the RPKI? or to leave it where it was before? -chris
--msa