Re: [#135346] Unauthorized BGP Announcements (follow up to Hijacked Networks)

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Jan 31, 2012, at 5:52 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:

> In message <7B85F9D8-BA9E-4341-9242-5EB514895B4C () virtualized org>, David Conrad 
> writes:
> > > I hope none of you ever get hijacked by a spammer housed at Phoenix =
> > NAP.  :)
> >
> > In the dim past, I had a somewhat similar situation:
> >
> > - A largish (national telco of a small country) ISP started announcing =
> > address space a customer of theirs provided.  Unfortunately, the address =
> > space wasn't the ISP's customer's to provide.
> > - When the ISP was notified by both their RIR and the organization to =
> > which the address space was rightfully delegated, the ISP's response =
> > was:
> >
> > "We have a contractual relationship with our customer to announce that =
> > space.  We have neither a contractual relationship (in this context) =
> > with the RIR nor the RIR's customer.  The RIR and/or the RIR's customer =
> > should resolve this issue with our customer."
> >
> > It as an eye-opening experience.
> >
> > Regards,
> > -drc
>
> And if I have a contract to commit murder that doesn't mean that
> it is right nor legal.  A contract can't get you out of dealing
> with the law of the land and in most place in the world "aiding and
> abetting" is illegal.
>
> Mark
> -- 
> Mark Andrews, ISC
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> PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: marka () isc org

Not to put a damper on things, but, is there actually any law that precludes use of integers as internet addresses 
contrary to the registration data contained in RIR databases?

I can see how a case might be made for tortious interference, but I think it's quite nebulous and I believe a civil 
matter at best. IANAL, but, I actually wonder if there is any way to construe the behavior in question as criminal and 
if so, under what statute(s).

Owen