[1647] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dick St.Peters)
Sun Jan 28 15:58:05 1996
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 15:43:20 -0500
From: "Dick St.Peters" <stpeters@NetHeaven.com>
To: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
Cc: SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM (Sean Donelan), nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199601280401.XAA20376@netaxs.com>
Avi Freedman writes:
> Along the way, it was made clear that the NIC wasn't interested in
> Sprint's filtering policies and would not make allocations based on it.
I'm just a country network jockey and don't understand all this stuff,
but Avi's comment is a perfect lead-in ...
What's been bothering me is that Sprint is filtering at /19 in 206/8
but just allocated me a /21 out of 206/8. Since my largest customer
is leaning on me to multi-home, and since I view Sprint's filtering as
indicative of what others are likely to do RSN, I begged Sprint to
allocate a block the size of the smallest block they would route if I
had gotten it from another NSP.
Is it unfair to ask Sprint to make allocations based on its own
filtering policies?
When I multihome and Pennsauken is down, will Sprint's filtering cut
me off from access to other Sprint customers via my alternative path?
--
Dick St.Peters, Gatekeeper, Pearly Gateway, Ballston Spa, NY
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