On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Leo Vegoda <leo.veg...@icann.org> wrote:
> On Sep 9, 2009, at 7:18 PM, Alex Lanstein wrote: > > > Along the same lines, I noticed that the worst Actor in recent > > memory (McColo - AS26780) stopped paying their bills to ARIN and > > their addresses have been returned to the pool. > > > > It's my opinion that a very select number of CIDR blocks (another > > example being the ones belonging to Cernel/InternetPath/Atrivo/etc, > > if it were ever fully extinguished) are, and forever will be, > > completely toxic and unusable to any legitimate enterprise. > > Arguments could be made that industry blacklists can and should be > > more flexible, but from the considerably more innocuous case in this > > thread, that is apparently not the modus operandi > > Putting these addresses back into use does not mean that they have to > be allocated to networks where they'll number mail servers. ARIN staff > is doubtless aware of the history of these blocks and will presumably > do their best to allocate them to networks that aren't intended to > host mail servers. > > Regards, > > Leo > > Not sure when ICANN got into the business of economic bailouts, but the mechanism that ICANN has defined seems patently unfair. Determining who is worthy of allocations based on a class without community input into a policy debate is "bad". ObOps: Chasing down all of this grunge ain't cheap or fair. Best, Martin -- Martin Hannigan mar...@theicelandguy.com p: +16178216079 Power, Network, and Costs Consulting for Iceland Datacenters and Occupants
