Up until recently, we were only providing the RIR database with 
information about our larger allocations /24 or larger. We have noticed however 
that many anti-spam organizations such as Spamhaus, and Fiveten will use the 
lack of information regarding an IP allocation as a blank check to blacklist 
entire /24s when they are really targeting a single /30 or a /29. As such we 
are examining publishing information for all allocations in the RIR database 
(/30s, /29s, etc). My question, mostly is related to the privacy of the 
customer whom the space is being allocated to. Has anyone ever had an issue 
where they have published a user's information and the user had an issue with 
it? Is there some way that we can 'proxy' the information so that it simply 
states that the /29 has been allocated to a customer but it doesn't provide 
their contact information?

        Most of our customers are co-location and dedicated hosting customers 
and we are simply unsure whether or not there are implications (legal or 
otherwise) in publishing our customer data in a public RIR database.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask.

Thanks,
-Drew

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