On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 1:28 PM Rob McEwen <rob@invaluement.com> wrote:
A take on the 1979 movie "When A Stranger Calls" - "have you checked the children?" becomes "have you checked the IP registration?"
[image: Have you checked the IP registration?]
The vast majority of the time, Ron Guilmette does "the Lord's work" - but THIS time - it looks to me like he put his political biases ahead of legit anti-abuse, and it's no surprise that we now have a trail of destruction left behind, along with much "innocent bystander" collateral damage.
Is DDoS-Guard without blame? Probably not, but them hosting some occasional criminals is NOT UNLIKE EVERY OTHER GLOBAL NETWORK! So like other large and diversity global networks, anti abuse should focus on removing their worst criminals/spammers. By these SAME standards, many other large and famous networks should lose most or much of their IPs too!
So here we are, with many OTHER networks now legitimately freaked out about losing their IPs, and with massive potential collateral damage that might hurt many "innocent bystanders" each time that is done!
They are not losing IPs because of hosting questionable content. It's very reassuring to see RIR policies being enforced; there is a sentiment of lack of accountability in IP allocations and that changing is positive for all the ecosystem. Rubens