[151013] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: filtering /48 is going to be necessary
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Vegoda)
Fri Mar 9 18:46:40 2012
From: Leo Vegoda <leo.vegoda@icann.org>
To: Sander Steffann <sander@steffann.nl>, Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 15:45:41 -0800
In-Reply-To: <70180960-F3F6-40B6-97D5-1763D16DF42F@steffann.nl>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hi,
Sander wrote:
> Splitting the allocation can be done for many reasons. There are known ca=
ses where one LIR operates multiple separate networks, each with a separate=
routing policy. They cannot get multiple allocations from the RIR and they=
cannot announce the whole allocation as a whole because of the separate ro=
uting policies (who are sometimes required legally, for example when an NRE=
N has both a commercial and an educational network).
If they have two different routing policies and need two different allocati=
ons, why not just have two different LIRs? It makes things a lot easier tha=
n spending untold weeks or time trying to work out which corner cases shoul=
d be supported by policy and which should not. No?
Leo
