[1563] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Young)
Fri Jan 26 10:13:05 1996
To: miguel.sanz@rediris.es (Miguel A. Sanz. RedIRIS/CSIC)
cc: smd@sprint.net, Daniel Karrenberg <Daniel.Karrenberg@ripe.net>,
nanog@merit.edu, forrestc@imach.com, cidrd@iepg.org, iab@isi.edu,
iesg@isi.edu, iana@isi.edu,
Local Internet Registries in Europe <local-ir@ripe.net>,
Tony Li <tli@cisco.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 25 Jan 1996 23:22:49 +0100."
<9601252322.ZM15338@rediris.es>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 10:05:05 -0500
From: "Jeff Young" <young@mci.net>
>It's the other way round: SPRINT should tell his customers he can't
>guarantee 100% global Internet connectivity because he disagrees with
>the current address allocation policy of the IANA/InterNIC/RIPE NCC/AP-NIC.
>They might want to look for a different transit provider...
>
>Regards,
>
>Miguel
say what you will about this policy, but someone (sean?) thought
long and hard about it's implications. i didn't like the abrupt
manner in which it was implemented, but it does take guts and it
is pretty elegant:
it's everyone else's 206 customers who can't
reach sprint's customers. even though it's the packets from sprint's
customer's that can't make it back to everyone else. that's the
beauty of it. sprint announces networks in the 206 space to us
and to everyone else. we accept the announcements if they are larger
than /24:
*> 206.12.94.0 192.41.177.241 128 80 0 1239 3602 ?
*> 206.12.187.0 192.41.177.241 128 80 0 1239 1794 ?
*> 206.13.159.0 192.41.177.241 128 80 0 1239 1791 3064 i
* 206.24.100.0/23 192.41.177.241 128 80 0 1239 1792 3563 i
*> 206.40.99.0 192.41.177.241 128 80 0 1239 3663 i
*> 206.40.100.0 192.41.177.241 128 80 0 1239 3663 i
*> 206.40.101.0 192.41.177.241 128 80 0 1239 3663 i
*> 206.40.102.0 192.41.177.241 128 80 0 1239 3663 i
*> 206.40.103.0 192.41.177.241 128 80 0 1239 3663 i
* 206.40.128.0/19 192.41.177.241 128 80 0 1239 4534 i
so if i'm a customer of sprint in a 206+ network that is announced as a
/24, i have a route to the world.
the real message is if you have a 206+ address, make sure that your
provider can put it into an aggregation block for you (or go to sprint).
nobody said it would be boring. :-)
Jeff Young
young@mci.net
