I'm looking for some independent confirmation from someone experienced in converting from a static routed ISP connection with the customer's netblock announced under the ISP's ASN to a BGP config where the customer has their own ASN and netblock. We're the customer, and we're getting conflicting info on what to expect during the conversion. Specifically, we're hearing conflicting things about how long it will take for the "world" to recognize our routes, whether or not there may be areas of the net "blackholed" from us for a while until things stabilize, etc. I realize this is probably off-topic for this list, so please direct any replies directly to me. If there is interest, I'm willing to summarize to the list. Chuck Conway conway@pjm.com