Re: DoD IP Space

[Brandon Martin <lists.nanog () monmotha net>]

On 1/20/21 12:52 PM, John Curran wrote:
> <chuckle>  While route hijacking isn't necessarily an ARIN issue, I will note that several US law enforcement 
> agencies (FBI & NCIS Cybercrime units) are quite interested in such events and do investigate them looking for 
> criminal activity.   
>
> (See https://pc.nanog.org/static/published/meetings/NANOG77/2108/20191028_Elverson_Your_As_Is_v1.pdf for details.) 

I think the difference is semantic but a very important one nonetheless.

Announcing a netblock that isn't yours and that you don't have authorization to use to others under the same terms and 
assumptions as you announce those to which you do hold legitimate rights or otherwise purporting to be a legitimate 
user of them on what we know as the "public Internet", that is the Internet where numbers are managed by IANA and the 
relevant RIRs is a "big deal".

Using numbers in a manner contrary to how they are assigned on the "public Internet" within a more limited scope where 
everybody agrees that the use of such numbers may be contrary to IANA and relevant RIR assignments is more along the 
lines of "you operate your network however you want".

Other things would fall under the same purview.  For example "alternate root" DNS hierarchies with extra TLDs or even 
TLDs used in contrast to ICANN recommendations would have similar considerations.
-- 
Brandon Martin