Hello Ronald, <disclaimer>I do work for LACNIC</disclaimer> <sorry>i'm really late in my NANOG followups</sorry>
P.P.S. Although I have previously bemoaned ARIN's lack of agressivness in reclaiming abandoned ASNs and IP blocks that have been hijacked, I feel compelled to note that at least they (ARIN) do have a proccess in place for doing so, i.e. when and if they are motivated in that direction. I have it on good authority however that LACNIC does not even have an established process for reclaiming abandoned number resources. Given that the problem of hijacked number resources, rather than disappearing, is in fact accelerating, over time, I do believe that it would behove LACNIC and other RiRs to develop processes for reclaiming abandoned resources, in particular when and where it becomes evident that these resources have been hijacked.
I would like to get in touch with the good authority you mention as he/she seems to be quite misinformed. LACNIC has, and has applied in the past, policies and procedures for resource recovery due to abandonment and other issues. The original resource recovery policy is LACNIC-2009-06 and the English text can be found here: http://www.lacnic.net/en/politicas/manual7-1.html You can also find the list of recovered prefixes and ASNs here http://www.lacnic.net/en/registro/revocacion.html I am not the expert on how the recovery process actually works but I can get you or the person who mentioned this alleged lack of process to you in touch with the staff who actually do work with resource recovery. regards Carlos -- -- ========================= Carlos M. Martinez-Cagnazzo http://www.labs.lacnic.net =========================