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However, it will also allow spammers to announce this space and get it through bogon filters.

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Why can't ISPs subscribe to a feed of all new RIPE allocations in near real-time?

Do you have any simple and concise definition of "ISP" for this context which would solve your "hide the info from spammers" issue?

--Michael Dillon

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