From the report ...
* Our current business rules now provide better support to legacy
resource holders such that proper verification for legacy resources
holders will be conducted before any updates are made to the records
on the AFRINIC WHOIS database.
It is important to quickly address why legacy holders should continue to
get **ANY** service from AFRINIC without any form of contract,
agreement, relationship or association.
Sunday.
On 2/11/21 10:57 AM, Noah wrote:
Hi Ronald
In short AFRINIC is paving the way and seeks the communities input on
how to handle the abandoned space.
When one attempts a whois query today, you will note a flag which
AFRINIC has slapped on most of the legacy space which has since been
recovered some of which is under dispute.
But we have an RIR in AFRINIC which is now trying to do something
about it.
I am of the view that we perhaps engage the working group to see if we
can work out a policy on how to handle the space and/or getting it
into the free pool.
Noah
On Wed, 10 Feb 2021, 03:31 Ronald F. Guilmette, <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
In message
<CAEqgTWah944VmGg7iRZ_9qvANgQTZt9QQsr33WjPCkcT+=-h...@mail.gmail.com
<mailto:[email protected]>>,
Noah <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>While reading the report, I noted that among the recommendations
on how to
>make things better, was below.
>
> - The report recommends that the AFRINIC community critically
assess how
> best the accuracy of the information pertaining to Legacy
Resource Holders
> can be improved and considers whether unused legacy resources
should be
> left idle while AFRINIC exhausts its remaining pool of IPv4
addresses.
Please note that this problem... which I personally like to call the
"recycling problem"... is not at all unique to AFRINIC. All five
of the
regional internet registries are suffering, to one degree or another,
with the problem of what to do about long-abandoned legacy blocks.
Although few people know even know about the problem, it is
rampant, and
it *is* a real and serious cause for global concern. As I hope
everyone
in the AFRINIC region now knows, and as was already evident as far
back
as 2008, when I and Brian Krebs reported on the case of the "SF
Bay Packet
Radio" abandoned legacy ARIN /16 block, the Internet has become,
in effect,
a happy hunting ground for multiple gangs of essentially lawless
marauders
who have beo cme focused, quite specifically, on stealing or squatting
specifically on abadonded legacy blocks. And once they have
successfully
stolen or squatted on such blocks, these criminal miscreants have
proven,
time and time again, that they are not too particular about the
kinds of
customers they then lease parts of such pilfered IPv4 space to.
The result
is that invariably, these crooks end up leasing their stolen IP
space to
yet other criminal enterprises, and that, in turn, endangers us
all, we the
global community of honest Internet users.
Something should most certainly be doen to address this ongoing
and recurring
problem. But it is legally somewhat tricky to take back legacy IP
space
which is not covered by any contract with any RIR. Still that is no
excuse not to try.
I have previously put forward the idea that we can and should look
to the
well established principals of international maritime law in order to
properly address this problem. Under international maritime law the
concept of abanndoned property, and rights relating to salvage, are
quite well established. It is way past time for the international
internet, and the governance organizations thereof, to grow up,
slip out
of their infantile diapers, and for them to create at least some
sensible
legal framework and provisions for the recovery of abandoned property,
especially those chunks of long-abandoned property that have long
since
become what any lawyer or any sane person would easly recognizes being
an attractive public nuisance. The fact that neither ICANN nor any of
the RIRs has yet even begun this process is a sad commentary on the
current state of "Internet governance", which might more aptly be
called
"Internet not-really-benign neglect".
In short, "leadership" when it comes to Internet governance is,
and has
been for many years now, arguably non-existant, at least with
respect to
this issue, if not also with respect to many many others.
Regards,
rfg
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