[67874] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Draft Document: De-boganising New Address Blocks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy Brown)
Tue Feb 24 12:03:01 2004
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:59:25 -0500
From: Timothy Brown <tim@tux.org>
To: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <OF54932CD4.84726D8C-ON80256E44.005ACEB6-80256E44.005AE41E@radianz.com>; from Michael.Dillon@radianz.com on Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 04:32:46PM +0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 04:32:46PM +0000, Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
>
> >The RIPE NCC has prepared a draft document titled "De-Bogonising New
> >Address Blocks":
>
> That is a misleading title.
>
> The problem is that ISPs cannot react quickly enough
> to open filters when new ranges are allocated. The proposed
> solution is to provide advance notification. I suppose this
> could allow ISPs to open filters before the new addresses
> are actually in use officially.
>
> However, it will also allow spammers to announce this
> space and get it through bogon filters.
>
> The real solution to this problem is to make it
> possible for ISPs to closely track RIR allocations
> in their filters in a semi-automated way. There may
> still be a few days of delay before a new allocation
> is fully routable but ISPs can compensate for that
> with internal processes.
>
> Why can't ISPs subscribe to a feed of all new
> RIPE allocations in near real-time?
Uh, bogon route server, hello?
http://www.cymru.com/BGP/bogon-rs.html
Tim
