On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 15:25, Ken Chase <ken@sizone.org> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 05:00:04PM -0400, Jared Mauch said: >I know of several large providers that would stop routing such "rogue" space.
Really? They'd take a seriously delinquent (and we're only talking about non payment after several months to Arin, not spammers or other 'criminal' elements) that's still paying for their transit and cut off their prefix announcements? I dont know that that's true for most outfits in these tough times. Nixing a $5000 or $10000+ MRC revenue stream probably requires some hard thought at high levels in most outfits.
First, in this thread we are not talking about folks who have not paid ARIN their dues, we are talking about folks who "sell" addresses despite not being authorized to do so by ARIN - aka abuse/fraud. Either way, if ARIN finds strong enough reason to revoke numbers from Org A who is ISP X' customer, ARIN will eventually reassign those numbers. When ISP Y calls ISP X and says "hey, your customer Org A is advertising my customer Org B's address space." ISP X will check WHOIS, see that they are telling the truth and filter that block from Org A. If ISP X does not, they will likely see peering and transit options shrink rapidly. So in short - yes, really. ~Chris
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