Re: HIJACKED: 148.163.0.0/16 -- WTF? Level3 is now doing IP hijacking??

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
> On Mar 30, 2011, at 10:26 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
> > It also needs
> >
> > 1. Someone to complain to law enforcement
> True,

as has been brought up in the past here... some folk rely heavily upon
IRR data for route prefix filtering. if the object is in the IRR
database (with the right linkages), it gets permitted in router
filters automagically.

-chris
(being able to validate 'ownership', really authorization to route,
automatically will sure be nice, eh?)