Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

[Matt Harris <matt () netfire net>]

On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 4:46 PM Martin Hannigan <hannigan () gmail com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 08:51 John Curran <jcurran () arin net> wrote:
>
> > On 7 Jan 2020, at 5:01 AM, Martijn Schmidt via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
> > wrote:
> > > Out of curiosity, since we aren't affected by this ourselves, I know of
> > cases where Cogent has sub-allocated IP space to its customers but which
> > those customers originate from their own ASN and then announce to multiple
> > upstream providers.
> > > So while the IP space is registered to Cogent and allocated to its
> > customer, the AS-path might be something like ^174_456$ but it's entirely
> > possible that ARIN would observe it as ^123_456$ instead. Are such IP
> > address blocks affected by the suspension?
> >
> > As noted earlier, ARIN has suspended service for all Cogent-registered IP
> > address blocks - this is being done as a discrete IP block access list
> > applied to relevant ARIN Whois services, so the routing of the blocks are
> > immaterial - a customer using a suballocation of Cogent space could be
> > affected but customers with their own IP blocks blocks that are simply
> > being routed by Cogent are not affected.
>
>
>
> This is a disproportionate response IMHO. $0.02
>
> YMMV,
>
> -M<

Seems entirely reasonable to me. You break the rules, you lose the
privilege. Works the same way with my 7 year old.