[ppml] 2003-5 rwhois/reassignment info

[Ed Allen Smith]

>Who needs to see utilization info?
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>The registry.

How about the general public, to make sure that the registry is following up
to its obligations to make sure that the IP address space is being assigned
because of utilization?

>Blacklisters and anti-spam unsolicited mail generators.

You're being unclear in your phrasing in the above. People wishing to
protect themselves and their customers from abuse (not just spam, and not
just other network DOS attacks, but breakin attempts, etcetera) are who
you're talking about?

>No comment.  

Is there some reason that an ISP should get away with failing to do
something about abuse just because it's big? Without reassignment info, if
one wishes to use WHOIS as a basis for blacklisting, either the entire ISP
gets blacklisted (which will probably happen eventually anyway, admittedly,
if it's an abusive-enough ISP), or people hold off because of the size of
the ISP and the resultant disruption to wanted email and other traffic. If
reassignment info is listed, then blocks can be more gradually emplaced.

	     -Allen

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