Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-24 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG
If you want services from LACNIC (as well as any other RIR), you need to sign the contracts (legal part) and know the policies. In that case you will reach *that* text in both pages. Google doesn't necessarily is right when doing translations, specially, because, as said several times, the

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-24 Thread John Sage
On 1/24/21 2:18 PM, Masataka Ohta wrote: JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG wrote: If you don't like it, stop complaining, and send a policy proposal, It is wast of time to complain or to modify practically obsoleted policy.     Masataka Ohta [selects folder "NANOG" in

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-24 Thread Masataka Ohta
JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG wrote: If you don't like it, stop complaining, and send a policy proposal, It is wast of time to complain or to modify practically obsoleted policy. Masataka Ohta

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-24 Thread Masataka Ohta
JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: In the case of LACNIC it is spanish, it is clearly indicated in the web site, I can't see it clearly indicated in LACNIC web site, at all. Where is it? How does it stated? [Jordi] There may be some problem with your browser or Internet connectivity that is missing

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-24 Thread J. Hellenthal via NANOG
Cool nice work Ron! Maybe a new subject for what this is really about ... -- J. Hellenthal The fact that there's a highway to Hell but only a stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume. > On Jan 24, 2021, at 13:36, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG > wrote: > > Again,

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-24 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG
Again, I'm not saying is the best way, is what the community *decided* before I added a clarification. The 50% was not a change, just to make it explicit, what was the actual interpretation. If you don't like it, stop complaining, and send a policy proposal, I could even support it, but I'm

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-24 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG
El 24/1/21 15:25, "NANOG en nombre de Masataka Ohta" escribió: JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG wrote: > To summarize several responses: You don't. > In the case of LACNIC it is spanish, it is clearly indicated in the > web site, I can't see it clearly indicated in

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-24 Thread Masataka Ohta
JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG wrote: I fully understand what you mean, however, I don’t think this is a problem even if all the RIRs ask for “%50 or even 100%” of usage in the region. So, you don't know how most, if not all, ISPs are operating their network. > That will make your life more

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-24 Thread Masataka Ohta
JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG wrote: To summarize several responses: You don't. In the case of LACNIC it is spanish, it is clearly indicated in the web site, I can't see it clearly indicated in LACNIC web site, at all. Where is it? How does it stated? > I've already informed LACNIC

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-24 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG
I fully understand what you mean, however, I don’t think this is a problem even if all the RIRs ask for “%50 or even 100%” of usage in the region. That will make your life more complex, as you will need to obtain addresses from each RIR. In the worst case, if all them ask for the same: If

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-23 Thread Matthew Petach
On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 1:11 AM JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG < nanog@nanog.org> wrote: > When you sign a contract with a RIR (whatever RIR), is always 2 parties, > so majority of resources operated in the region (so to have the complete > context) clearly means that you are using in the region

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-23 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG
To summarize several responses: Every RIR decides which one is their official languages for the policies, contracts, etc.. In case of discrepancies, the one that is binding is the official one. In the case of LACNIC it is spanish, it is clearly indicated in the web site, and in the policy

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-23 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG
When you sign a contract with a RIR (whatever RIR), is always 2 parties, so majority of resources operated in the region (so to have the complete context) clearly means that you are using in the region >50% of the provided IPs. El 23/1/21 3:06, "Mark Andrews" escribió: Majority only

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-22 Thread Masataka Ohta
Mark Andrews wrote: Majority only means >50% But actual word used by LACNIC is "mainly" as Jordi wrote: : *“Mainly” is understood to mean more than 50%. : (https://www.lacnic.net/681/2/lacnic/) : The 50% was not there before, so I submitted a "recent" : policy proposal that reached

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-22 Thread John Levine
In article <2debf180-f514-4183-afa5-6e0cf9a73...@isc.org> you write: >If 40% of address are used in LACNIC, 30% in APNIC and 30% in RIPE then the >majority of addresses by region >are in the LACNIC region. Most of us would call that a plurality. Majority means more than half. What does this

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-22 Thread Donald Eastlake
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 9:07 PM Mark Andrews wrote: > Majority only means >50% > when there are 2 parties. > > When there is more than 2 parties the majority can be less than 50%. When > there is more than 2 parties, one uses the term “absolute majority” to > indicate >50%. At least in

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-22 Thread Mark Andrews
Majority only means >50% when there are 2 parties. When there is more than 2 parties the majority can be less than 50%. When there is more than 2 parties, one uses the term “absolute majority” to indicate >50%. There are more than 2 RIRs. If 40% of address are used in LACNIC, 30% in APNIC

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-22 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 3:24 PM Masataka Ohta < mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote: > JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG wrote: > My proposal added the clarification that "majority" is understood as > "over 50%". > > And the proposal is denied to be unreasonable by Toma and, more >

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-22 Thread George Herbert
> On Jan 21, 2021, at 12:59 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote: > > > How many other Belize defuncts do they have? How many offshore countries > > like Belize are there in the region? > > Based on my cursory knowledge of offshore corporate registrations in Belize, > Panama and the Cayman Islands,

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-22 Thread Masataka Ohta
Joe Provo wrote: If someone chooses to operate in a region without backing that choice with sufficient resources, perhaps it isn't a wise choice? Within LACNIC region, the official language is English in "South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands" (and, though there is disputes, "Falkland

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-22 Thread Masataka Ohta
Joe Provo wrote: It should also be noted that you can't expect a Russian company having some business in LACNIC region read document of LACNIC not in English or Russian, which is why some reservation statements I mentioned could have been essentially important. The onus is on the entity that

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-22 Thread Joe Provo
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 08:18:08PM +0900, Masataka Ohta wrote: [snip] > It should also be noted that you can't expect a Russian company > having some business in LACNIC region read document of LACNIC > not in English or Russian, which is why some reservation > statements I mentioned could have

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-22 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG
El 22/1/21 13:25, "NANOG en nombre de Masataka Ohta" escribió: JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG wrote: > My proposal added the clarification that "majority" is understood as "over 50%". And the proposal is denied to be unreasonable by Toma and, more aggressively, by me.

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-22 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG
I'm not sure how to interpret your response, but was not a meant of attacking anyone, on the other way around, I put my own example that *not being member of any RIR (not having resources in any of them, but having customers in all the regions, and helping them in that)* I'm contributing to

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-22 Thread Masataka Ohta
JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG wrote: My proposal added the clarification that "majority" is understood as "over 50%". And the proposal is denied to be unreasonable by Toma and, more aggressively, by me. So? > The staff was already interpreting the policy like that, because > usually when

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-22 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG
No, what I'm saying is that the original text of the policy *BEFORE* I send my proposal to amend it was: "majority" (not clarifying what is majority) My proposal added the clarification that "majority" is understood as "over 50%". The staff was already interpreting the policy like that,

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-22 Thread Masataka Ohta
JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG wrote: Policies in each RIR are developed by the (global) community. I live in Madrid, EU, my RIR is RIPE NCC, RIPE community, however, I contribute to policy making process in all the regions (all the RIRs), even if I've no resources in any of them. I

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-22 Thread Mark Andrews
I would think as long as most of the LACNIC addresses are used in region they are fine. Without going and reading the policies in full, I would expect that there would be a exception for multinationals to allow them to get addresses from wherever they held a significant usage. -- Mark

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-22 Thread Masataka Ohta
Sorry to have sent uneditted text. JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG wrote: First think to clarify: In the Spanish version, the text is (mayoría) "majority" (that's why I said the translation as mainly, to me -not a native English-, is wrong). I'm afraid you have already stated: > *“Mainly” is

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-22 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG
I think you're missing the point about what are policies in the RIRs. Policies in each RIR are developed by the (global) community. I live in Madrid, EU, my RIR is RIPE NCC, RIPE community, however, I contribute to policy making process in all the regions (all the RIRs), even if I've no

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-22 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG
Hi Toma, First think to clarify: In the Spanish version, the text is (mayoría) "majority" (that's why I said the translation as mainly, to me -not a native English-, is wrong). Note also that the original text, before my policy proposal already said the same, but didn't stated if

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-22 Thread Masataka Ohta
JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG wrote: Not at all. The "top" mandate of any RIR, in terms or resource allocation, is what the policies say. Within LACNIC, yes, of course. LACNIC can specify some document specifies the policy to be followed by all the employees of LACNIC. However, that is a

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-22 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 12:27 PM JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG: > The numbering resources under the stewardship of LACNIC must be > distributed among organizations legally constituted within its service > region [COBERTURA] and mainly *serving networks and services operating in > this

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-22 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG
Not at all. The "top" mandate of any RIR, in terms or resource allocation, is what the policies say. The document that you linked is just a "guide" and unfortunately, unless I missed it, the document doesn't have a "publication date", but I bet is several years old. Further to that is

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-22 Thread Masataka Ohta
JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG wrote: No, this is not correct. LACNIC policies, state: that LACNIC has contradicting statements is a problem of LACNIC and you can not say others that the statement of your choice is the one others must follow. > (look at the Spanish version, English seems not

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-22 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG
No, this is not correct. LACNIC policies, state: 1.14 Principles for Proper Administration and Stewardship The fundamental principle is to distribute unique Internet numbering resources according to the technical and operational needs of the networks currently using, or that will use, these

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-22 Thread Masataka Ohta
Eric Kuhnke wrote: Based on my cursory knowledge of offshore corporate registrations in Belize, Panama and the Cayman Islands, identifying those locations which are only mailboxes versus actual business office addresses should not be overly complicated or difficult. A problem, however, is

RE: Nice work Ron

2021-01-21 Thread bzs
On January 21, 2021 at 12:39 nanog@nanog.org (Jean St-Laurent via NANOG) wrote: > > I feel this is a good example that a pen is mightier than a sword. In all honesty have we really given the sword a chance in these cases? -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die| b...@theworld.com

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-21 Thread Eric Kuhnke
> How many other Belize defuncts do they have? How many offshore countries like Belize are there in the region? Based on my cursory knowledge of offshore corporate registrations in Belize, Panama and the Cayman Islands, identifying those locations which are only mailboxes versus actual business

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-21 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 10:20 PM Fredrik Holmqvist / I2B wrote: > Just a question "this one hosted a Web site for a terrorist > organization", which terrorist organizations web site did they host ? > "Hamas", until November. That was discussed before on the mailing list. -- Töma >

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-21 Thread Ethan
"The pending disruption for DDoS-Guard and Parler comes compliments of Ron Guilmette, a researcher who has made it something of a personal mission to de-platform conspiracy theorist and far-right groups." Sounds horrible. But now that the American flag is a hate symbol not surprising. The

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-21 Thread Alain Hebert
    Well,     FYI: I'm not getting getting this kind of vibe from him, more like of an IP Space janitor.     I'm wondering if it is a statement from Ron or the opinion of the author of the article.     Myself, I'm jealous of Ron for having the capacity of doing this kind of task =D on top

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-21 Thread Fredrik Holmqvist / I2B
Hi. Just a question "this one hosted a Web site for a terrorist organization", which terrorist organizations web site did they host ? --- Fredrik Holmqvist On 2021-01-21 20:11, Töma Gavrichenkov wrote: Peace, On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 9:57 PM Tom Beecher wrote: fraudulent business records

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-21 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 9:57 PM Tom Beecher wrote: > fraudulent business records are used all over the world for things like > this all the time. Calling for a complete audit of LACNIC feels quite > extreme absent a pattern of issues, which doesn't seem to have been > presented. > Listen,

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-21 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
> On Jan 21, 2021, at 10:16 AM, Jean St-Laurent via NANOG > wrote: > > https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/01/ddos-guard-to-forfeit-internet-space-occupied-by-parler/ For context, from the article: "The pending disruption for DDoS-Guard and Parler comes compliments of Ron Guilmette, a

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-21 Thread Tom Beecher
In my recent ( last 24 months) dealings with LACNIC, they were very thorough in validating information and enforcing documentation requirements as we needed to modify some things after some corporate changes. Obviously that may not be representative of all their operations, but they were quite on

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-21 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 9:29 PM Tom Beecher wrote: > am I the only one to believe that (given that LACNIC had allocated an IP >> block to a company that doesn't conform to the LACNIC policies) what we >> urgently need to see next is the complete audit of the LACNIC operations, >> so that

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-21 Thread Tom Beecher
> > am I the only one to believe that (given that LACNIC had allocated an IP > block to a company that doesn't conform to the LACNIC policies) what we > urgently need to see next is the complete audit of the LACNIC operations, > so that this doesn't look like selective enforcement? > LACNIC

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-21 Thread Tom Beecher
DDOS-Guard is only hosting a temporary static page for Parler, they are not hosting the full Parler application. (Source : Quote from Parler's CEO, NYT, 1/19/21, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/technology/parler-russian-company.html) On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 12:55 PM Matt Erculiani wrote: >

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-21 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 8:17 PM Jean St-Laurent via NANOG wrote: > > https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/01/ddos-guard-to-forfeit-internet-space-occupied-by-parler/ > A disclaimer: - Standing for the sanity of the Internet routing; - Assuming (quite reliably) actual policy violation; -

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-21 Thread Matt Erculiani
I'll add that after reading the article, it doesn't appear that Parler was specifically targeted, just DDoS-Guard prior to becoming their new host. Deplatforming of Parler wasn't really on anyone's radar back in November when the complaint with LACNIC was filed and I'm not under the impression

RE: Nice work Ron

2021-01-21 Thread Jean St-Laurent via NANOG
I should have probably add more content or a comment. I feel this is a good example that a pen is mightier than a sword. I am impress by what I read in this article and would definitely like to hear/read more, maybe coming from Ronald Guilmette? Thanks all Jean From: NANOG