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Re: DoD IP Space


From: Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:08:13 -0800

Additionally, examples of impersonating a corporate entity to acquire
unused IP space (Erie Forge and Steel's /16, anyone?) undoubtedly fall
under existing, pre-internet interstate commerce fraud laws...

http://web.mit.edu/net-security/Camp/2003/DBowie_IP_Hijacking.pdf

https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/files/edited-iphd-2.ppt



On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 9:54 AM John Curran <jcurran () arin net> wrote:

On 20 Jan 2021, at 12:17 PM, Bryan Fields <Bryan () bryanfields net> wrote:


AFAIK IANA and the RIR's cannot enforce use of IP space assignments on any
network.


<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.)

FYI,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers



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