On Aug 14, 2010, at 12:12 AM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote:
ARIN needs to investigate these companies and start reclaiming space. Pose as a customer, see if they'll sell you a /24 or shorter on a dedicated server for some arbitrary reason, and if so they're busted.
From there launch a full investigation and start reclaiming space.
Jeff - Yes and No. Yes, we'd like to know if you believe that an organization is forging their address space justification. We always do some cross-checking and verification but it is not foolproof. No, we will not pose as a customer, although we will verify some customer assignments and speak with them. If we find evidence of fraud in company's request to ARIN, we will perform resource review and have them return space to match what they should have received (as described in <https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html> NRPM section 12). We will also make certain that future requests are very closely reviewed. Recognize that these creative hosting firms are also businesses with customers, and reclaiming IP space out from under them to impact customers isn't the intent of policy. We do occasionally have egregious acts (e.g. where the "ISP" turns out to be simply a purveyor of IP addresses to online marketing firms), and circumstances such as those are where reclamation is used. Does that clarify things? /John John Curran President and CEO ARIN