[107865] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: LoA (Letter of Authorization) for Prefix Filter Modification?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Tue Sep 16 09:57:05 2008
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:56:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: "Rodriguez, Mauricio" <Mauricio.Rodriguez@fpl.com>
In-Reply-To: <EAC92A711800DB4B92C0371BD874955D039A018959@GOXEXVS02.fplu.fpl.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Rodriguez, Mauricio wrote:
> Recently, one of our Transit providers has started requiring a Letter of
> Authorization for addition of any of our own Transit customers' prefixes
> to their filters. The verbiage of the LoA basically states that the
> owner of the assignment or allocation (not necessarily our customer)
> allows us to advertise their prefixes through our service.
>
> Is this a common practice? Our past experience indicates that a simple
> request to a NOC or update of a routing registry usually is sufficient.
It's not unheard of. Most providers don't require it, but I have run into
a few who do. It's a minor PITA compared to the web interfaces some
providers make you use to request filter updates.
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