Not sure if RIPE knows this, but the following url will give you a list of RIPE allocations, many /20s, /17s and /16s which are either hijacked or allocated directly to illegal spam operations (who have obviously faked the RIPE application as 'ISPs' to get huge allocations)... http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings.lasso?isp=RIPE Direct RIPE allocations to many of these outfits, including "Russian Business Network" (the Russian Cybercrime Mob) for example are allocations we would love to see reclaimed asap. Regards, Steve Linford The Spamhaus Project http://www.spamhaus.org On 3 Jul 2008, at 12:25, Alex Le Heux wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
The IANA and the RIRs are working on an ongoing basis to verify and correct registration data of legacy address space to identify free space in these blocks.