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.
to quote bmanning.. they may even be put into service on a network that is not 'the internet'. Though I think Alex's idea isn't without merit, perhaps as a stage between 'de-allocate from non-payer' and 'allocate to new payer'. (perhaps only for blocks meeting some set of criteria, yet to be determined/discussed) -Chris
