[anti-abuse-wg] Cost-benefit of registering reassignments

Hi all,

I found a (minor) black list who blocks my new IP.  They say to not even try to 
ask for delisting unless I am the official owner of the IP.  They observe that 
"rwhois/SWIP is normally offered free of charge by most providers".

Sounds oldish, doesn't it?  RDAP is working well, at least for numbers, and I 
see no reason to mention rwhois,  SWIP is mentioned in a 1993 RFC[*] in the 
context of a move toward an "X.500 distributed database model".  Where are we 
now?  I see ARIN has relatively recent blogs on that.[†]

My ISP says that registration is reserved to non-GPON "privileged fiber" whose 
costs start at around 10x ordinary fares.  How much does RIPE charge for 
registering reassignments?

Why isn't it possible for end-user to claim IP "ownership"?  If the IP database 
were dependable, there wouldn't be so many site-verification TXT records in the 
DNS.

I use RDAP to complain about network abuse, and the average response I get is 
that they passed the complaint to their customer.  Some times ISPs make 
pressure on the customer to fix security leaks, so this seems good.  In some 
other cases, ISPs ignore complaints, whereas the operator might have been 
interested.  Alternatively, complaints might be sent in Cc: to national CERTs, 
LEAs, AbuseIPDB, and the like.

Simple reassignments can be done without changing abuse-c.  Does that still 
imply any responsibility?


Best
Ale
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[*] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1491#section-2.2.4.1
[†] https://www.arin.net/blog/2018/05/03/which-swip-type-is-right-for-you/