On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 05:26:10PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
One item that is currently before the ARIN Advisory Council is a suggestion that we publish a map of all currently allocated IP space and keep that map up to date. If we do this then I think it solves this problem if people keep verifying their filters against the map or if they generate their filters based on the map.
You mean like ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/ipv4-address-space
No, actually, he doesn't (probably) mean exactly that... the concept is good, but tghe granularity too coarse. Excellent resource for historical research, though; thanks for the pointer. (And why, exactly, does DISA need _6_ Class A's? :-)
One which may be usefull is registering the 'unassigned' IANA blocks in the IRR with a special AS number (e.g. AS0 or AS65535) so people can use the RtConfig tools to create filters by exception (e.g. NOT AS0) But there is already so much junk like 0.0.0.0/1 in there already, I hesitate doing it.
I'm not enough of a BGPgeek to know for sure, but that sounds like an excellent idea to me, and 0 is the one I'd pick, I think. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby, Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592 Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com