[53963] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Operational Issues with 69.0.0.0/8...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Fri Dec 6 14:49:56 2002
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <ssprunk@cisco.com>
To: "Alec H. Peterson" <ahp@hilander.com>,
<Michael.Dillon@radianz.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:48:54 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Thus spake "Alec H. Peterson" <ahp@hilander.com>
> <Putting on my hat as ARIN AC Chair>
> I see this as purely an operational issue.
>
> ARIN explicitly does not guarantee routability of prefixes it assigns.
This is a case of ARIN knowingly assigning unusable space to customers.
There's a huge difference there.
> If service providers choose to filter ARIN allocations, then that is an
> operational decision. I really don't see what action you expect ARIN to
> take along these lines.
Assign him some temporarly space in a usable block while he tries to get the
offending ASs to fix their filters, and stop assigning out of 69/8 until it
actually works. This isn't rocket science.
S
