Re: Abuse procedures... Reality Checks

[Pete Templin]

Chris Owen wrote:
Well, "well managed" to me would mean that allocations from that /20 
were SWIPed or a rwhois server was running so that if any of those 4,000 
IP addresses does something bad you don't get caught in the middle.

Due diligence with SWIP/rwhois only means that one customer is well 
documented apart from another.  As this thread has highlighted, some 
people filter/block based on random variables: the covering /24, the 
covering aggregate announcement, and/or arbitrary bit lengths.  If a 
particular server is within the scope of what someone decides to 
filter/block, it gets filtered or blocked.  Good SWIPs/rwhois entries 
don't mean jack to those admins.

pt