Re: DOD prefixes and AS8003 / GRSCORP

[Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>]

> I think it’s a general matter of public interest how this reassignment of
> a massive government-owned block of well over sixteen million IP addresses
> happened. Even if not fraudulent, the public has a right to know who is
> behind this huge transfer of wealth.
>
> Don’t you?

I wasn't aware that deciding to have IP space assigned to you announced
into the DFZ was somehow creating or transfering wealth.



On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 3:35 PM Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org> wrote:

> Owen,
>
> I think one cause for concern is why “almost all DOD prefixes (
> 7.0.0.0/8,11.0.0.0/8,22.0.0.0/8 and bunch of /22s) are now announced
> under AS8003 (GRSCORP) which was just formed a few months ago,” which,
> according to ARIN WHOIS, had a source registry of “DoD Network Information
> Center”.
>
> I think it’s a general matter of public interest how this reassignment of
> a massive government-owned block of well over sixteen million IP addresses
> happened. Even if not fraudulent, the public has a right to know who is
> behind this huge transfer of wealth.
>
> Don’t you?
>
>  -mel beckman
>
> On Mar 15, 2021, at 12:23 PM, Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
> wrote:
>
>  According to the timeline posted to this list (by you, Siyuan), Globl
> Resource Systems, LLC was registered in Delaware on September 8, 2020.
> Your timeline also shows the resources being issued to GRS by ARIN on
> September 11, september 14, 2020
> It looks to me like they subsequently registered the corporation in
> Florida and moved the company address there.
>
> I don’t see anything suspicious here based on your own statements, so I’m
> a bit confused what you are on about.
>
> Owen
>
> On Mar 12, 2021, at 03:34 , Siyuan Miao <aveline () misaka io> wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> My biggest concern is why the AS8003 was assigned to the company (GLOBAL
> RESOURCE SYSTEMS, LLC) even before its existence.
>
> When we were requesting resources or transfers, ARIN always asked us to
> provide a Certificate of Good Standing and we had to pay the state to order
> it.
>
> However, it appears that a Certificate of Good Standing is not required or
> ARIN didn't validate it in this case.
>
> Regards,
> Siyuan
>
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 7:17 PM John Curran <jcurran () arin net> wrote:
>
> > On 11 Mar 2021, at 7:56 AM, Siyuan Miao <aveline () misaka io> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > Just noticed that almost all DOD prefixes (
> > 7.0.0.0/8,11.0.0.0/8,22.0.0.0/8 and bunch of /22s)  are now announced
> > under AS8003 (GRSCORP) which was just formed a few months ago.
> >
> > It looks so suspicious. Does anyone know if it's authorized?
> >
> >
> > Siyuan -
> >
> > If you have concerns, you can confirm whether these IP address blocks are
> > being routed as intended by verification with their listed technical
> > contacts - e.g. https://search.arin.net/rdap/?query=22.0.0.0
> >
> > As I noted on this list several weeks back - "lack of routing history is
> > not at all a reliable indicator of the potential for valid routing of a
> > given IPv4 block in the future, so best practice suggest that allocated
> > address space should not be blocked by others without specific cause. Doing
> > otherwise opens one up to unexpected surprises when issued space suddenly
> > becomes more active in routing and is yet is inexplicably unreachable for
> > some destinations."
> >
> > Thanks!
> > /John
> >
> > John Curran
> > President and CEO
> > American Registry for Internet Numbers