[106838] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Public shaming list for ISPs announcing other ISPs IP space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (michael.dillon@bt.com)
Thu Aug 14 15:15:49 2008
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:15:42 +0100
In-Reply-To: <C6CCB02B-4CAC-4541-96BF-45CC78E357D0@virtualized.org>
From: <michael.dillon@bt.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> On Aug 14, 2008, at 11:13 AM, <michael.dillon@bt.com>=20
> <michael.dillon@bt.com > wrote:
> > ARIN holds the top of that authority and delegation=20
> hierarchy because=20
> > they give out the ASnums and IP address blocks.
>=20
> And here I thought IANA handed out ASnums and IP address=20
> blocks to ARIN (and RIPE and LACNIC and AfriNIC and APNIC and=20
> the IETF for specific protocol requirements)...
We are talking Internet operations, not Internet politics.
You are right as far as that goes but it is ARIN et al. who
hand out ASNums and IP addresses to the network operators=20
who actually *USE* these numbers in operational networks.
People don't care where the numbers came from, they care
who actually got the rights to use them, and then what
those orgs did with the rights, i.e. an IP addr block owner
may delegate the rights to announce a subset of their space
to a specific ASnum holder.
Etc.
--Michael Dillon
