Re: DoD IP Space

[Mark Foster <blakjak () blakjak net>]

On 25/04/2021 3:24 am, Mel Beckman wrote:
> This doesn’t sound good, no matter how you slice it. The lack of 
> transparency with a civilian resource is troubling at a minimum. I’m 
> going to bogon this space as a defensive measure, until its real — and 
> detailed — purpose can be known. The secret places of our government 
> have proven themselves untrustworthy in the protection of citizens’ 
> data and networks. They tend to think they know “what’s good for” us.
>
>  -mel

Why does anyone on the Internet need to publish to your arbitrary 
standards, what they intend to do with their IP address ranges?

Failure to advertise the IP address space to the Internet (until now, 
perhaps) doesn't make the address space any less legitimate, and though 
I'd expect the DoD to generally comply with all of the expected norms 
around BGP arrangements and published whois details, at the end of the 
day, they can nominate who should originate it from their AS and as long 
as we can see who owns it.... it's just not our business.

Any organisation who's used DoD space in a way that's likely to conflict 
with, well, the DoD, gambled and lost.

Mark.