Hi, On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:43:15PM +0200, Christian Rasmussen wrote:
I do not see the reason for using PI space if you're an ISP intending to become LIR, this means you will need to renumber when you get your PA allocation no matter if you use PA or PI, so why not just get a PA assignment from your provider until you can justify the /21?
That's what I thought people would do. But they don't. They want to be "independent", and so they go for PI, instead for a suballocation from one of their upstreams. (And they don't renumber, of course, but just keep the PI)
Marcus Ruchti says that the majority of the ISPs will not announce PA space from another AS, does this include more specific announcements?
I just disagree with that statement. PA-based multihoming is a valid approach to solve certain classes of problems. If some ISPs refuse to support this (because it creates more work for their NOC or whatever reason...), the market place has alternatives... [..]
A very peculiar thing regarding policy, a customer of ours applied for a PA block but could not justify a /20 (a year ago), BUT, when we applied on their behalf for PA space (ours) we were allowed to assign them a /20....! I was then told that as they had now been assigned a /20 they would be allowed to become LIR...! Hopefully this was a misunderstanding, if not, I think this part of the policy might need a few changes..
Changing this is part of Leo's proposal :-) Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 56535 (56318) SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-299