A paper LOA is a legally binding document, an IRR record is an IRR record. Falsifying an LOA that is transmitted digitally is wire fraud and can basically be handed right over to a DA for injunction and prosecution.
Falsifying IRR records on the other hand leaves more work for the ISP's lawyers to walk a judge (and jury) through the entire purpose and use of that system, as opposed to "here's a super important sheet of paper that they lied on case closed". -Matt On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 11:57 AM Seth Mattinen via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote: > Why do companies still insist on, or deploy new systems that rely on > paper LOA for IP and ASN resources? How can this be considered more > trustworthy than RIR based IRR records? > > And I'm not even talking about old companies, I have a situation right > now where a VPS provider I'm using will no longer use IRR and only > accepts new paper LOAs. In the year 2024. I don't understand how anyone > can go backwards like that. > > ~Seth > -- Matt Erculiani
