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From: NSF Routing Arbiter Database Maintainer Forwarding <DB-admin@ra.net> To: AS1800@ra.net Subject: Requested NSF Routing Arbiter database object changes Date: 24 April 1998 16:37

Dear Maintainer,

This is to notify you that some objects in which you are mentioned as a maintainer were requested to be changed, but *failed* the proper authorisation for any of the mentioned maintainers. Please contact the sender of these changes about changes that need need to be made to the following objects.

The mail message causing these failures had the following mail headers:

- From: Super-User <root@g03.global-one.net.tr> - Subject: - Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 18:31:32 +0300 (EET DST) - Msg-Id: <199804241531.SAA04338@g03.global-one.net.tr>

NSF Routing Arbiter Database Maintainer Forwarding Department

--- DELETION REQUESTED FOR:

route: 192.0.0.0/2 descr: QUARTER-DEFAULT-ONE descr: The Reasonable Default Route Project descr: This prefix is one of three which is designed descr: to accomplish several things. Firstly, ICM descr: will be offering a set of robust and hardened descr: default-oriented prefixes which will be made descr: reliably available to some of AS1800's peers and descr: things downstream from them. The routing announcements descr: will be supplemented with a box that sends back descr: appropriate ICMP messages; at some point we will descr: also make a view of the default-announcing box's descr: knowledge of global routing available to folks descr: who wish to accept the default announcement. descr: Secondly, this announcement is designed to assist descr: ANS in the transition away from advisories. We expect descr: that this will allow people to send in far fewer descr: advisory updates than is done currently, without descr: breaking reachability between ANS's customers and descr: the rest of the world. This is good for both ANS descr: and everyone else. descr: Thirdly, ICM will be running some experiments on descr: sheer amount of traffic that follows an ultimate descr: default, although this must be done without descr: examining that traffic for content without explicit descr: permission from the originator. We expect that this descr: will help serve as a tool to identify and correct descr: problems in the global routing system. descr: questions, comments and flames to: smd@sprint.net, roll@stupi.se origin: AS1800 advisory: AS690 1:1800 2:1239 mnt-by: MAINT-AS1800 changed: con@sprint.net 951012 source: RADB