In message <20190810003820.gd2...@jima.tpb.net>, Niels Bakker <niels=na...@bakker.net> wrote:
>* r...@tristatelogic.com (Ronald F. Guilmette) [Sat 10 Aug 2019, 02:26 CEST]: >>As far as I am aware, no RIR makes any effort whatsoever to vet >>changes to WHOIS records, either for IP blocks or ASNs or ORG >>records. > >This is hilarious. You should hear the whining from any EU-based >operator who has to implement the transfer of RIPE NCC resources in >a corporate acquisition. > >I recently was involved with one of those and the amount of due >diligence required by the RIPE NCC was pretty intense. If I were at >an RIR I'd be insulted by your claim of "no... effort whatsoever". I do not and would not dispute that at least a few RIRs... in particular ARIN and RIPE... are -very- good and -very- diligent these days in their vetting of the legitimacy of what the RIRs themselves, and on their (secret) -internal- books list as "registrants" of number resources. But what is listed on the internal books of any given RIR is -not- what appears in the WHOIS records. It's just that simple. Your RIR may have given you a full rectal exam prior to giving you your IP addresses. But how does that help -me- if you're sending me bad packets and your WHOIS records says the following? Registrant: Salvador Dali Address: 12345 Moon St., The Universe, 999999999 Phone: <<Lindsey Graham's cell phone number>> Regards, rfg