John, I have privately e-mailed you 5 x /18 and 3 x /19 that are being abused. If ARIN takes action against even one of these allocations I will commend you publicly. I'll go do the investigation for you if you need evidence.
Best regards, Jeff On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 9:07 AM, John Curran <jcur...@arin.net> wrote: > On Aug 14, 2010, at 12:12 AM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: > >> ARIN needs to investigate these companies and start reclaiming space. >> Pose as a customer, see if they'll sell you a /24 or shorter on a >> dedicated server for some arbitrary reason, and if so they're busted. >>> >> From there launch a full investigation and start reclaiming space. > > Jeff - > > Yes and No. > > Yes, we'd like to know if you believe that an organization is > forging their address space justification. We always do some > cross-checking and verification but it is not foolproof. > > No, we will not pose as a customer, although we will verify some > customer assignments and speak with them. If we find evidence > of fraud in company's request to ARIN, we will perform resource > review and have them return space to match what they should have > received (as described in <https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html> > NRPM section 12). We will also make certain that future requests > are very closely reviewed. Recognize that these creative hosting > firms are also businesses with customers, and reclaiming IP space > out from under them to impact customers isn't the intent of policy. > We do occasionally have egregious acts (e.g. where the "ISP" turns > out to be simply a purveyor of IP addresses to online marketing > firms), and circumstances such as those are where reclamation is > used. > > Does that clarify things? > /John > > John Curran > President and CEO > ARIN > > -- Jeffrey Lyon, Leadership Team jeffrey.l...@blacklotus.net | http://www.blacklotus.net Black Lotus Communications of The IRC Company, Inc. Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ddosprotection to find out about news, promotions, and (gasp!) system outages which are updated in real time. Platinum sponsor of HostingCon 2010. Come to Austin, TX on July 19 - 21 to find out how to "protect your booty."
