Ownerless PI Revokation, was Re: [address-policy-wg] Revised 2007-01...

On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 07:58 +0100, Peter Galbavy wrote:
> If this space is reclaimed on the simplistic basis of "it wasn't in the 
> public routing table yesterday (or ever)" then reassigned, suddenly the 
> original assignee finds their private and confidetial traffic might 
> start leaking out one of their public connections. Great.

You have a problem if security depends on your network resources not
being announced to the outside. Nothing prevents the RIR-community from
changing the rules to reclaim un-announced space *if* there is consensus
in support for such a move. The legitimacy of private use of allocations
is an important issue in that discussion. Poor network security,
however, is no excuse.

//per