[db-wg] New "status" tag of REVOKED requested
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Hank Nussbacher
hank at att.net.il
Thu Jun 12 09:09:57 CEST 2003
The following was posted to APNIC without much comment. Since RIPErs are more outspoken, I'd like to raise it here as a possible idea for implementation. >I am part of a volunteer team along with Barry Greene and Terry Baranski >that contact Internet users (ISPs and corporates) when they start >announcing something wrong on the Internet. Recently, Geoff Huston updated >his CIDR report - http://bgp.potaroo.net/cidr/#Bogons and up popped a >number of APNIC customers that were announcing prefixes that were not >allocated in APNIC. > >Turns out that the customers membership was "closed" and APNIC tried >contacting them with no success. APNIC waits about 90-120 days before >closing a member for non-payment. APNIC then sends an email informing the >upstream to stop announcing the IP range that has been reclaimed from the >closed member. Then they remove all the database objects which are related >to this organisation from the WHOIS database. After a one year period, >APNIC will start to reallocate/reassign that particular IP range to other >organisations. > >The problem is that the upstream or even the customer themselves continue >to use the prefix and announce it to the Internet, thereby falling into the >Bogon category. > >I think 90-120 days is too little before removing the inetnum object. I >also think that a better a tactic would be to add a "remarks" to the >inetnum or perhaps create a new "status" tag such as REVOKED. I also think >such a policy should be uniform between RIRs. > >Comments? -Hank
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