North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: IP ranges, re- announcing 'PA space' via BGP, etc
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 01:13:19PM +0200, Alexander Koch wrote: > When a random customer (content hoster) asks you to accept > something out of 8/8 that is Level(3) space, and there is no > route at this moment in the routing table, do you accept it, > or does Level(3) have some fancy written formal process and > they get approval to do it, etc.? Initial instinct has to just be 'yuck', but in the interest of getting the job done, I'd look at : - how is it registered ? Are your customer mentioned ? - is it already a prefix which is announced seperately from the rest of the aggregated block ? - if the customer wants to multihome, have they even considered PI ? - are the customer happy for you to talk to the aggregating company ? are you happy to talk to them ? - it's still 'yuck'. -a
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