From the little blurb on the RIPE site, it sounds like the Dutch police are making threats (taking over administration) that they can't legally keep. It also sounds like RIPE did a big screw you to the Dutch police for trying to interfere.
-Grant On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Stephen Wilcox <steve.wilcox@ixreach.com>wrote:
FYI RIPE reallocated these blocks. Whilst I understand they didn't want the court order, this seems a bit silly, doesn't that now make the machines residing in these blocks special - even if the owners arent miscreants, it makes them a viable target.
https://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/news/clarification-on-reallocated...
inetnum: 93.188.160.0 - 93.188.167.255 netname: LT-HOSTING-20120810 descr: Aurimas Rapalis trading as "II Hosting Media" country: US
inetnum: 85.255.112.0 - 85.255.127.255 netname: INEVO-NET descr: Inevo Labs SRL country: RO
On 13 July 2012 19:48, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
On Jul 7, 2012, at 10:31 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
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From: "Seth Mattinen" <sethm@rollernet.us>
On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:20:55 -0400, Andrew Fried said:
The dns-ok.us site is getting crushed from all the sudden media interest.
One wonders why it's so hard to get the media interested when it would be *helpful*. DNS Changer gets traction like 3 days before the drop dead date, IPv6 gets on the radar *after* we run out of v4 /8's to give to regionals, etc...
Reactive is easier to justify to the powers that be than proactive.
It's easier to justify *not* being smart enough to deal with the
problem
when it doesn't cause a major disruption?
When it isn't causing a major problem, the powers that be have a harder time understanding the need to act.
Once it is causing a major disruption, the powers that be have no trouble understanding the need to act.
This is not veneration of stupidity, it is human nature. Often summarized in the colloquialism "The squeaky wheel gets the grease."
Owen
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