Using unallocated address space

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

On Mon, 12 February 2001, John Fraizer wrote:
> Any time a network is caught announcing non-allocated address space, the
> registry should bill them accordingly.  If they refuse to pay, the
> registry should yank their ASN.  That would be strong encouragement to do
> the right thing.

Other than making it difficult for people to figure out WHOIS using that
ASN, "yanking" an ASN's registration has little practical effect.  You
can use an un-allocated ASN almost as easily as using an un-allocated
address block.