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Re: [anti-spam-wg] Non-cooperation of RIPE ISP in investigating report of email abuse (spam)

  • From: der Mouse mouse@localhost
  • Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:51:52 -0500 (EST)

>> One thing that might help would be for a RIR to themselves emit a
>> route for any space assigned to them but currently not sub-assigned,
>> a route which would blackhole the traffic.
> Given that any more specific route out of that space announced by a
> "black hat" would just overrule that blackhole route, the RIRs would
> have to announce all the remaining address space as [tiny routes].

Mmm, true; the only way it would work would involve software updates
"everywhere".  Okay, not a good idea.  Sorry for the noise.

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