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<p>From the report ...<br>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Our current business rules now
provide better support to legacy resource holders such that
proper verification for legacy resources holders will be
conducted before any updates are made to the records on the
AFRINIC WHOIS database.</li>
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<p>It is important to quickly address why legacy holders should
continue to get **ANY** service from AFRINIC without any form of
contract, agreement, relationship or association.</p>
<p>Sunday.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/11/21 10:57 AM, Noah wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">Hi Ronald
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<div dir="auto">In short AFRINIC is paving the way and seeks the
communities input on how to handle the abandoned space.</div>
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<div dir="auto">When one attempts a whois query today, you will
note a flag which AFRINIC has slapped on most of the legacy
space which has since been recovered some of which is under
dispute.</div>
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<div dir="auto">But we have an RIR in AFRINIC which is now
trying to do something about it.</div>
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<div dir="auto">I am of the view that we perhaps engage the
working group to see if we can work out a policy on how to
handle the space and/or getting it into the free pool.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Noah<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 10 Feb 2021, 03:31
Ronald F. Guilmette, <<a
href="mailto:rfg@tristatelogic.com" moz-do-not-send="true">rfg@tristatelogic.com</a>>
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Noah <<a href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz" target="_blank"
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wrote:<br>
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>While reading the report, I noted that among the
recommendations on how to<br>
>make things better, was below.<br>
><br>
> - The report recommends that the AFRINIC community
critically assess how<br>
> best the accuracy of the information pertaining to
Legacy Resource Holders<br>
> can be improved and considers whether unused legacy
resources should be<br>
> left idle while AFRINIC exhausts its remaining pool of
IPv4 addresses.<br>
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Please note that this problem... which I personally like to
call the<br>
"recycling problem"... is not at all unique to AFRINIC. All
five of the<br>
regional internet registries are suffering, to one degree or
another,<br>
with the problem of what to do about long-abandoned legacy
blocks.<br>
<br>
Although few people know even know about the problem, it is
rampant, and<br>
it *is* a real and serious cause for global concern. As I
hope everyone<br>
in the AFRINIC region now knows, and as was already evident as
far back<br>
as 2008, when I and Brian Krebs reported on the case of the
"SF Bay Packet<br>
Radio" abandoned legacy ARIN /16 block, the Internet has
become, in effect,<br>
a happy hunting ground for multiple gangs of essentially
lawless marauders<br>
who have beo cme focused, quite specifically, on stealing or
squatting<br>
specifically on abadonded legacy blocks. And once they have
successfully<br>
stolen or squatted on such blocks, these criminal miscreants
have proven,<br>
time and time again, that they are not too particular about
the kinds of<br>
customers they then lease parts of such pilfered IPv4 space
to. The result<br>
is that invariably, these crooks end up leasing their stolen
IP space to<br>
yet other criminal enterprises, and that, in turn, endangers
us all, we the<br>
global community of honest Internet users.<br>
<br>
Something should most certainly be doen to address this
ongoing and recurring<br>
problem. But it is legally somewhat tricky to take back
legacy IP space<br>
which is not covered by any contract with any RIR. Still that
is no<br>
excuse not to try.<br>
<br>
I have previously put forward the idea that we can and should
look to the<br>
well established principals of international maritime law in
order to<br>
properly address this problem. Under international maritime
law the<br>
concept of abanndoned property, and rights relating to
salvage, are<br>
quite well established. It is way past time for the
international<br>
internet, and the governance organizations thereof, to grow
up, slip out<br>
of their infantile diapers, and for them to create at least
some sensible<br>
legal framework and provisions for the recovery of abandoned
property,<br>
especially those chunks of long-abandoned property that have
long since<br>
become what any lawyer or any sane person would easly
recognizes being<br>
an attractive public nuisance. The fact that neither ICANN
nor any of<br>
the RIRs has yet even begun this process is a sad commentary
on the<br>
current state of "Internet governance", which might more aptly
be called<br>
"Internet not-really-benign neglect".<br>
<br>
In short, "leadership" when it comes to Internet governance
is, and has<br>
been for many years now, arguably non-existant, at least with
respect to<br>
this issue, if not also with respect to many many others.<br>
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<br>
Regards,<br>
rfg<br>
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