On 4/7/06, Alexander Koch <efraim@clues.de> wrote:
On Fri, 7 April 2006 07:03:09 -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
Can you give us some examples so us "dumb Americans" can more precisely explain the problem? :)
When a random customer (content hoster) asks you to accept something out of 8/8 that is Level(3) space, and there is no route at this moment in the routing table, do you accept it, or does Level(3) have some fancy written formal process and they get approval to do it, etc.?
Btw, I hope you folks would defer to Level(3)'s reannouncement policy, which is very clear in their AS object located within RIPE's IRR, which reads: If you are a provider who has been asked to route a more-specific network block that is part of 4.0.0.0/8, please ask your customer to contact Level 3 to obtain a new network block. Level 3 will not accept advertisements for any networks that are part of 4.0.0.0/8 from any non-customer peer. So, if you want to do what's "right", tell your customer to go talk with Level(3), so they can renumber into IP space that would be permitted to be announced more specifically. If anybody wants to see the comments in their as object, just look at http://www.onesc.net/communities/as3356 it's very clear. charles