In message <94320.1553230...@segfault.tristatelogic.com>, Ronald F. Guilmette <r...@tristatelogic.com> writes > >In message <hb1cgocoy9kcf...@highwayman.com>, >Richard Clayton <rich...@highwayman.com> wrote: > >>Yes hijacks can be simple to understand -- but they can be very complex >>and perfectly legitimate activity can look like a hijack until a lot of >>detail has been considered. > >I'm a simple minded man, and I guess I'm perplexed by this. > >Isn't the whole point of route registries generally and RIPE's in particular >supposed to be to make it easy for pretty much any arbitrary outsider to >look at a given block and a given route to that block and conclude that >the two -do- in fact properly go together, or conversely, that they do not?
not everything is in a route registry --- and you may recall some previous work that I did showing that the mere presence of entries in a route registry is no guarantee that it reflects an actual peering arrangement: <https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2015/11/02/ongoing-badness-in-the- ripe-database/> note of course that some changes have been made since then which improve the situation as regards out-of-area space -- richard Richard Clayton Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin 11 Nov 1755
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