[3082] in North American Network Operators' Group
Sprint's route filters and Europe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Karrenberg)
Mon Jun 3 12:18:25 1996
To: "Alex.Bligh" <amb@xara.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 03 Jun 1996 09:27:05 BST.
<199606030827.JAA06158@diamond.xara.net>
From: Daniel Karrenberg <Daniel.Karrenberg@ripe.net>
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 18:09:19 +0200
> "Alex.Bligh" <amb@xara.net> writes:
>
> Specifically RIPE are allocating /19s as their default allocation window
> to local-IRs. They don't charge per block but they charge a yearly fee
> for being a local-IR.
Nice to read something correct for a change. Thanks! ;-(
> Sprint in its wisdom is filtering those in 195/8
> (great theory, but a bit problematic in practice when it can't agree with
> one of the larger registries on what size to filter)
I happen to agree and Sprint happens to have changed their policy to one
that happens to be compatible with the NCC's allocation policy in the
meantime.
> with the result
> there are now likely to be 50% more adverts (i.e. 2x/19 and an additional
> /18 - /19 still necessary to get ANS to work as you can't put a /18
> route object in the database).
Yes you can! If you have a /18 allocation you should announce it as such
and put a /18 route object in the database. Can you be more specific
on why it did not work for you?
Daniel
