Chis's Idea is nice. Routing engineers in ISP sometimes misconfigure their gear, so bogus route will be announced. Checking the Routing Information ande sending the warning messages to the ISP, makes the network more stable. And, let me toss an additional idea to it. *) If an allocated addresses does not appear in such table for some period, asking the aloocated guy to return them. Ichiro Mizukoshi e-mail(office):ichiro@TokyoNet.ad.jp Tel:+81-3-3341-6301 Fax:+81-3-3341-6305 From: "Chris A. Icide" <chris@nap.net> Subject: Re: Class "B" forsale (fwd) Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 04:10:54 -0600
Now I don't even imagine to propose any comprehensive solution for this. However let me toss an idea on the table. If in fact ARIN does come into being as an organization supported and funded by an for the commuity of IP users, then those IP users could work in cooperation with ARIN (and the other NIC's) to police the usage of IP's. For example, the NICs could maintain a database online that could monitor the current BGP tables. If the NIC determines that an unallocated IP block is in use, they could then insert a prefix entry into the table, seriously degrading the value of that IP block. This could also be used in a gross way to evaluate usage of prefixes, and unauthorized changes to prefixes.
Again, this is only an idea that I toss on the table, but I do stand by the fact that unless there is a negetive incentive, there are those who will do anything that is beneficial to them.
Chris A. Icide Sr. Engineer Nap.Net, L.L.C.