[nsp-sec] ARIN-REACHABILITY-TESTING

[Bill Woodcock]

      On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Chris Morrow wrote:
    > the short story is that Randy Bush has a contract (with someone else as
    > well I think REM.com == Hank Kilmer) with ARIN to do reachability testing
    > for new /8's allocated from IANA to ARIN. I believe he does some
    > ping/routing tests and notifys folks that appear to be blocking
    > access/routes from the newly allocated ranges. it does say this in the
    > description for the block though...
    > I had thought that the blocks were turned back shortly after the testing
    > was finished, this has been allocated going on a year now though.

Speaking _without_ my ARIN board of directors hat on, since I haven't yet 
looked into the situation, my recollection is the same as Chris'.  Randy 
was supposed to be analyzing how widely bogon-(or otherwise)-blocked new 
allocations coming from the IANA were.  He'd solicited a contract to do so 
from Ray Plzak, and had further subcontracted the work to students 
somewhere.  My recollection was that it was a trial, of sorts, and that it 
was not deemed successful, and the contract was not renewed.  I'll look 
into this further, and report back.

                                -Bill