On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:32 AM, David Miller <dmiller@tiggee.com> wrote:
I am merely refuting the statement, which I have heard many times in many different forums, that ARIN (or any RIR) makes address allocations and then walks away with no further active involvement in the use of these allocations. This statement is simply not true.
David, What *is* true is that ARIN's further involvement in the use of those allocations is regulated by the policies that you and I wrote and instructed ARIN to follow. Those policies include no actions to be taken when a hijacker announces routes contrary to ARIN's registry information. So long as ARIN's information has not been falsified, forcing or not forcing folks to obey it is left for the ISPs to resolve for themselves. Do you think ARIN should should act as a clearinghouse for action with respect to hijacked BGP announcements? Draft a policy proposal and post it on the PPML. If your colleagues agree with you, that will become one of ARIN's roles. Until then, you criticize ARIN unfairly for doing what you and I have told it to do. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004