--- "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris@UU.NET> wrote:
That may be true, but what does a provider do when they are presented with written 'authority to use address space' from a customer? Certianly if the customer provides 'proper' documentation that the ip space is available for them to route, and that they have authority from the 'owner' to do this... what is an ISP to do? Aside from route the blocks?
When I worked for $LARGE_ISP and regularly updated prefix-lists for BGP customers, I remember that we would give smaller customers a harder time about having permission to route new netblocks than we gave big ones: the assumption was that the bug customers would be ISPs, and could be providing backup transit or some such, while small customers were assumed to be enterprises which would only route their own space. ===== David Barak -fully RFC 1925 compliant- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com