On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 17:34:10 +0200 Nurani Nimpuno <nurani@ripe.net> wrote:
Just a short comment from the RIR perspective.
The issues brought up in this discussion are questions that the RIPE NCC hostmasters are confronted with daily in the IP request handling.
Requesters who wish to multi-home (for one reason or the other) often ask the hostmasters for advise on whether to do it with PI address space or by having their upstream announcing a more specific route within a PA aggregate (which is then also separately announced through a second upstream).
Rather than the RIRs giving advise on these operational matters, we think it would be appropriate and helpful if these recommendations would come from the ISP community.
A few BCPs or guideline documents would be useful to point these requesters to. Could this be an initiative for the routing-wg?
Kind regards,
Nurani Nimpuno RIPE NCC
Hi Nuriani, hi lir-wg, hi routing-wg, i am starting to write a BCP / guideline document covering this issue. I would appreciate the help of other network operators, since i do not know all network operators directly. The version(s) of the document can be accessed at www.lambda-solutions.de/bcp/ I already did a first draft covering the items which will be in the document but would appreciate if i could get help from the different operators. I would like to have input from the current practice from: - Level3 - UUnet - Sprint - C&W - Ebone (which i would declare as "major transit provider" because i don't like the terminology about "tier-xyz") and also from the other important downstream isps, how they handle this issues. Also some information from ripe would be handy, if they ACK issue PA assignments or do PI requests for this kind of issue. --jan -- Jan-Ahrent Czmok http://www.lambda-solutions.de Technical Advisor ISP Hofdcker Str. 14, 65207 Wiesbaden Tel. +49-(0)-174-3074404