RE: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

["Michel Py" <michel () arneill-py sacramento ca us>]

> Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> This is not IP hijacking by any means,

Mmmm. What tells you that these routes won't be announced to peers or
won't leak? We are not supposed to see announcements for bogons nor for
RFC1918 space, but we do.

Thinking about it, I agree that "hijacking" is not the proper term
though as it is generally understood as announcing/using a netblock that
belongs to an entity long gone (preferably from the swamp, so one can
try to modify everything possible in whois info and claim ownership) or
is un-allocated. 

Would this be "kidnapping"?

This is to blacklisting what wildcarding is to NXDOMAIN. If the domain
does not exist, you get an error not the web page you get when it's
wilcarded. If the IP is blackholed, you get an error not the web page
you get when it's kidnapped.

Michel.