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RE: FW: /8s and filtering

  • From: Harsha Narayan
  • Date: Tue Dec 10 15:05:49 2002

Yes, I just read that. But then APNIC's policy allows no such thing.

http://www.apnic.net/docs/policy/add-manage-policy.html#10.1

Harsha.

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Ejay Hire wrote:

> "This policy allows a downstream customer's multi-homing requirement to
> serve as justification for a /24 reassignment from their upstream ISP,
> regardless of host requirements"
>
> -ej
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harsha Narayan [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 1:41 PM
> To: Alec H. Peterson
> Cc: Ejay Hire; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: FW: /8s and filtering
>
> Hello,
>   The policy says that a /24 of PA space can be given if the
> customer can show that it has an immediate requirement of 25% of the
> /24 = /26.
>
>  That is the reason I asked if the multihomer has to be able to fully
> utilize a /26=25% of /24 to be able to multihome.
>
> Thanks,
> Harsha.
>
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Alec H. Peterson wrote:
>
> >
> > --On Tuesday, December 10, 2002 13:08 -0600 Ejay Hire
> <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Having a /24 doesn't indicate you are a network of any particular
> size,
> > > ARIN ratified a policy that allows multihoming as justification for
> a
> > > /24.
> >
> > I was thinking about PI space.  ARIN did in fact ratify a policy
> stating
> > that a provider may allocate a customer a /24 of PA space if they are
> > multihomed.
> >
> > Alec, red-faced AC member
> >
> > --
> > Alec H. Peterson -- [email protected]
> > Chief Technology Officer
> > Catbird Networks, http://www.catbird.com
> >
>