North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: New Draft Document: De-boganising New Address Blocks
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 04:32:46PM +0000, [email protected] wrote: > > >The RIPE NCC has prepared a draft document titled "De-Bogonising New > >Address Blocks": > > That is a misleading title. > > The problem is that ISPs cannot react quickly enough > to open filters when new ranges are allocated. The proposed > solution is to provide advance notification. I suppose this > could allow ISPs to open filters before the new addresses > are actually in use officially. > > However, it will also allow spammers to announce this > space and get it through bogon filters. > > The real solution to this problem is to make it > possible for ISPs to closely track RIR allocations > in their filters in a semi-automated way. There may > still be a few days of delay before a new allocation > is fully routable but ISPs can compensate for that > with internal processes. > > Why can't ISPs subscribe to a feed of all new > RIPE allocations in near real-time? Uh, bogon route server, hello? http://www.cymru.com/BGP/bogon-rs.html Tim
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