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

  • From: peter h peter@localhost
  • Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:36:25 +0100

On Sunday 13 January 2008 22.49, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 03:59:46PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> > 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 /24s (because folks
> mostly agree to not accept anything more specific than a /24).
> 
> Some few 100.000s of them.
> 
> Good plan.
> 
> Gert Doering
>         -- NetMaster

Exactly what i feared.

Is there any works-in-progress for authenticated enforcable BGP-(5?)  ??
Or is there any other means of preventing illicit ranges to reach across AS-boundries ?
That would be needed if any attempts of better control of ip-usage is done. 

-- 
        Peter Håkanson   

        There's never money to do it right, but always money to do it
        again ... and again ... and again ... and again.
        ( Det är billigare att göra rätt. Det är dyrt att laga fel. )