On Apr 7, 2006, at 5:06 AM, Alexander Koch wrote:
I see very often that customers in the US send morespecs all over the place, deaggregate whole /14s or such scary crap, ask us to accept random stuff out of 4/8 and 8/8 (L3 space) by example.
I am practically asking what is (if any) the normal way for any of this. I am working by the principle that not everything I could do I should do, especially not right away. Is there any accepted procedure / policy for anyone to a) announce and b) accept (the transit supplier) and have that sanctioned formally? Maybe nobody cares, then tell me. ;-)
There is a lot of "nobody cares", but I'm not sure that accounts for everything you see. Can you give us some examples so us "dumb Americans" can more precisely explain the problem? :)
Coming from Europe where pretty much everyone is RIPE LIR and has its own /21 at the least I might not see the problem that allegedly some (many) US ISPs do have. Enlighten me.
(And, no, I do not fall for the urban legend that RIPE or ARIN are by default evil, clearly not. I do have real- life experience that whenever you can rightfully justify even large IP assignments you do get it.)
What if you try to justify small assignments? -- TTFN, patrick