
In message <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE0A52B07A@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>, "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com> wrote:
So ARIN is in the process of verifying their contacts database. Organizations with an unreachable contact might be a good place to plant a "dig here" sign.
Fyi -- They (ARIN) already _are_ putting up ``dig here'' signs... in the POC records. Unfortunately, it would now appear that the folks doing the digging in those exact spots, are the hijackers, like Joytel. (Unless I'm mistaken, every last one of the blocks that Joytel grabbed had one of those little annotations on the associated POC record(s)). Talk about the Law of Unintended Conseqences! Oh well. It all comes out in the wash. Those POC annotations may perhaps have helped Joytel to identify easy takeover targets, but then they also helped _me_ to find the specific blocks that Joytel had jacked. On balance, I say it is better to have them than to not have them. Even if they might occasionally give those with sinister intent a small leg up. Regards, rfg P.S. I hope that everybody knows that the jerk behind Joytel also, apparently, tried to screw the taxpayers out of about $11+ million of ``stimulus'' money... undoubtedly for yet another useless make-work ``shovel ready'' project. http://jacksonville.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2009/11/30/story1.h... No word on whether he ever actually got his hoped-for $11.8 million payoff. Knowing how ga-ga the Obama administration is over anything that has the word ``broadband'' in it however, I wouldn't put it past them, and they probably did give this schmuck the cash. (They also really like the words ``young entrepreneur''. Sounds great to the unwashed masses in a press release.) If companies want to move here, they have a great labor force, great quality of life and affordable office space, said Mark Anthony Marques, Joytel president and CEO. What we lack is a good enough connection to the Internet infrastructure. The company expects to know by mid-December whether it will receive funding for the project, which has the support of key players including Mayor John Peyton, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson and U.S. Reps. Corrine Brown and Ander Crenshaw. About 400 gigabytes of high-speed Internet capacity will be available to providers by mid-2010 if funding is received. That is enough capacity to transfer the entire contents of the Library of Congress within five minutes. ... or alternatively, to spam every person on the planet, twice, in under twenty minutes.