Re: US DOJ victim letter

[John Peach <john-nanog () johnpeach com>]

On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:30:47 +0000
bmanning () vacation karoshi com wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:20:08PM -0500, Martin Hannigan wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Randy Epstein <nanog () hostleasing net> wrote:
> > >
[snip]
>       I missed the part where ARIN turned over its address database w/ associatedd
>       registration information to the Fed ... I mean I've always advocated for 
>       LEO access, but ther has been significant pushback fromm the community on
>       unfettered access to that data.  As I recall, there are even policies and
>       processes to limit/restrict external queries to prevent a DDos of the whois
>       servers.  And some fairly strict policies on who gets dumps of the address
>       space.  As far as I know (not very far) bundling the address database
>       -and- the registration data are not available to mere mortals.
>
>       So - just how DID the Fed get the data w/o violating ARIN policy?
>
> /bill

Ours came from our whois information.

-- 
John