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Re: Perspective on ARIN allocations to non-American entities

  • From: David Schwartz
  • Date: Fri Apr 05 23:37:06 2002 
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 22:56:46 -0500 (EST), Brian Wallingford wrote:

>I've searched the IANA and ICANN sites, and have found no justification
>for what appear to be ARIN allocations to foreign entities within
>66.231.
>
>Two serious UCE/hacking attempt offenders are as follows:
>66.231.64.0/20   GIGA-BLK-1

	Last I checked, Columbia was part of South America. The 'A' in Arin means 
America, the two continents.

>66.231.128.0/20  ECON-BLK-1
>
>Both of which appear to be completely unapologetic for their users'
>activities and refuse to take any action against repeat offenders
>(10's of thousands of attempts per week here).  Why have these blocks
>apparently been allocated via ARIN?
>
>Am I missing something?

	I'm not sure what you think ARIN has to do with UCE/hacking. ARIN allocates 
IP addresses. The regional splitting of the registries is more for reasons of 
convenience than anything else and I don't believe there's any special reason 
ARIN should deny a request just because the addressees will be using the 
block out-of-the region. (Though it is recommended that you use the registry 
for your region.)

	It is common for companies with a presence in multiple regions to deal with 
a single regional registry and then use the blocks where they actually need 
them. This is much better than them using two for a variety of reasons 
including that it makes the registry better able to assess the justification. 
So a multinational company might request all the blocks it needs through ARIN 
and it's U.S. office.

	What benefit do you think a policy of strictly enforcing region boundaries 
would have?

	DS