> > I think it’s a general matter of public interest how this reassignment of > a massive government-owned block of well over sixteen million IP addresses > happened. Even if not fraudulent, the public has a right to know who is > behind this huge transfer of wealth. > > Don’t you? >
I wasn't aware that deciding to have IP space assigned to you announced into the DFZ was somehow creating or transfering wealth. On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 3:35 PM Mel Beckman <m...@beckman.org> wrote: > Owen, > > I think one cause for concern is why “almost all DOD prefixes ( > 7.0.0.0/8,11.0.0.0/8,22.0.0.0/8 and bunch of /22s) are now announced > under AS8003 (GRSCORP) which was just formed a few months ago,” which, > according to ARIN WHOIS, had a source registry of “DoD Network Information > Center”. > > I think it’s a general matter of public interest how this reassignment of > a massive government-owned block of well over sixteen million IP addresses > happened. Even if not fraudulent, the public has a right to know who is > behind this huge transfer of wealth. > > Don’t you? > > -mel beckman > > On Mar 15, 2021, at 12:23 PM, Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> > wrote: > > According to the timeline posted to this list (by you, Siyuan), Globl > Resource Systems, LLC was registered in Delaware on September 8, 2020. > Your timeline also shows the resources being issued to GRS by ARIN on > September 11, september 14, 2020 > It looks to me like they subsequently registered the corporation in > Florida and moved the company address there. > > I don’t see anything suspicious here based on your own statements, so I’m > a bit confused what you are on about. > > Owen > > On Mar 12, 2021, at 03:34 , Siyuan Miao <avel...@misaka.io> wrote: > > Hi John, > > My biggest concern is why the AS8003 was assigned to the company (GLOBAL > RESOURCE SYSTEMS, LLC) even before its existence. > > When we were requesting resources or transfers, ARIN always asked us to > provide a Certificate of Good Standing and we had to pay the state to order > it. > > However, it appears that a Certificate of Good Standing is not required or > ARIN didn't validate it in this case. > > Regards, > Siyuan > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 7:17 PM John Curran <jcur...@arin.net> wrote: > >> On 11 Mar 2021, at 7:56 AM, Siyuan Miao <avel...@misaka.io> wrote: >> >> >> Hi Folks, >> >> Just noticed that almost all DOD prefixes ( >> 7.0.0.0/8,11.0.0.0/8,22.0.0.0/8 and bunch of /22s) are now announced >> under AS8003 (GRSCORP) which was just formed a few months ago. >> >> It looks so suspicious. Does anyone know if it's authorized? >> >> >> Siyuan - >> >> If you have concerns, you can confirm whether these IP address blocks are >> being routed as intended by verification with their listed technical >> contacts - e.g. https://search.arin.net/rdap/?query=22.0.0.0 >> >> As I noted on this list several weeks back - "lack of routing history is >> not at all a reliable indicator of the potential for valid routing of a >> given IPv4 block in the future, so best practice suggest that allocated >> address space should not be blocked by others without specific cause. Doing >> otherwise opens one up to unexpected surprises when issued space suddenly >> becomes more active in routing and is yet is inexplicably unreachable for >> some destinations." >> >> Thanks! >> /John >> >> John Curran >> President and CEO >> American Registry for Internet Numbers >> >> >
