[136592] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: And so it ends...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Thu Feb 3 16:05:31 2011
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 15:55:54 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D4B11E5.7000005@ispalliance.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Helms" <khelms@ispalliance.net>
> My 2 cents, in the few cases that we've been involved with that dealt
> with reclaiming space the backbone providers have universally followed
> what is in the ARIN database. If you need a block routed they generally
> will not take action until the SWIP is complete and the same is true
> when pulling space back that had been in use. Since the major ISPs (and
> most of the minor ones as well) filter the BGP they get from customer
> they can prevent the advertisement of blocks that are disputed.
Stipulated.
But are they going to go up against someone big?
Do Lilly, DuPont and Merck need /8? HP need a /7?
What if one of those blocks was the subject here?
Apple?
I will in turn stipulate that these events are not likely. But they're
certainly not impossible.
Cheers,
-- jra
