I am not sure that nanog is the right place for this, since it affects folk outside North America. On Tue, 2 May 1995, Steve Heimlich wrote:
New registered prefixes will assume the current majority policy toward the home AS in which they're registered.
What if the current majority policy for that AS is that most nets did not have NSFNet routing, and are announced to ANS via the CIX? It might make more sense to exclude non-NSFNet routes when determining the majority policy. Many folk have routes that did not have NSFNet routing and that were announced to ANS via the CIX (with aslist 1:1957). What should be done with those? Should we send in new NACRs to change the aslist? Some non-NSFnet aggregates contain more-specific routes that do (or rather, did) have NSFNet routing. How soon can we withdraw the more-specifics? I fear that bad things will happen if we withdraw the more-specifics without first changing the aslist on the aggregate. How will ANS's new routing policy affect the peering between ANS and the CIX? Is it still prohibited for ANS to hear the same route both through the CIX and through a non-CIX connection? Should CIX members send in new NACRs that include as1957 in aslists where it was not previously included, or will ANS figure out something suitable without needing a lot of new NACRs? --apb (Alan Barrett)