On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, George Herbert wrote: ==>I think that it is appropriate for newcomer networks to ask what ==>the ettiquette is for dealing with routing policy problems here. ==>The eventual solution will obviously require direct contact with ==>alternet, but there are other issues, such as whether broadcasting ==>competing announcements is ok or not (probably best not to... wait ==>until it's all settled). A lot of times it's very difficult to tell the management of a company who has 'ownership' (meant loosely) of the official records of the CIDR block that they can't use it immediately because someone else is 'borrowing' their address space. And, I _do_ believe that problems such as this are related to the Operation of North American Networks. /cah