On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:25:05AM +0100, Stephen Burley wrote:
[...]What i descrided was a multi-national massive internal aggregation problem. A network with 200 000 internal routes and 17 LIR's each with their own fragmentation happening within their confederacies. It is 1 AS with multiple exchanges which means we pass on much more routes than we really need to.
I understand this problem. I just fail to see how this relates to RIPE, multi-level allocations and a deeper registry hierarchy. If you mix assignments from 17 LIRs in a single AS then the LIRs have to cooperate so that you can aggregate routes as necessary. How would another level or registry help ? -- i.A. Michael van Elst / phone: +49 721 9652 330 Xlink - Network Information Centre \/ fax: +49 721 9652 349 Emmy-Noether-Strasse 9 /\ link http://nic.xlink.net/ D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany /_______ email: hostmaster@xlink.net [ KPNQwest Germany GmbH, Sitz Karlsruhe ] [ Amtsgericht Karlsruhe HRB 8161, Geschaeftsfuehrer: Michael Mueller-Berg ]