Lightly used IP addresses

[owen at delong.com (Owen DeLong)]

If you know of actual fraud or abuse, please report it to ARIN. ARIN does
investigate and attempt to resolve those issues.

Owen

On Aug 13, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Andrew Kirch wrote:

> Jeff,
> 
> Go for it.  I've always wondered what ARIN had between it's legs.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> On 8/13/2010 1:53 PM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote:
>> 9. I could point out so many cases of "justification abuse" or
>> outright fraudulent justification and I bet nothing would actually
>> transpire.
>> 
>> My two cents.
>> 
>> Jeff
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Owen DeLong<owen at delong.com>  wrote:
>>> On Aug 13, 2010, at 10:36 AM, John Levine wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> http://www.circleid.com/posts/psst_interested_in_some_lightly_used_ip_addresses/
>>>>> Discuss.  :-)
>>>> I don't entirely understand the process.  Here's the flow chart as far
>>>> as I've figured it out:
>>>> 
>>>> 1.  A sells a /20 of IPv4 space to B for, say, $5,000
>>>> 
>>>> 2.  A tells ARIN to transfer the chunk to B
>>>> 
>>>> 3.  ARIN says no, B hasn't shown that they need it
>>>> 
>>>> 4.  A and B say screw it, and B announces the space anyway
>>>> 
>>>> 5.  ???
>>>> 
>>>> R's,
>>>> John
>>> 6.      ARIN receives a fraud/abuse complaint that A's space is being used by B.
>>> 7.      ARIN discovers that A is no longer using the space in accordance with their RSA
>>> 8.      ARIN reclaims the space and A and B are left to figure out who owes what to whom.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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