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Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Wed Mar 23 14:31:36 2005

Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:28:22 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <16961.49240.690457.759359@roam.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


Randy Bush wrote:

>i do not understand what you are proposing.  ahhh.  you mean
>  o each asn register a pingable address within its normal space,
>    maybe in their irr route object
>  o the rirs set up a routing island with only the new prefix in
>    it
>  o from a box with that new prefix, the rir pings all asn's 
>    registered pingable addresses from the first step
>  o whine about any which are not pingable
>
>interesting modulo issues of reachability at any one time.  and
>places more of a routing policing burden on the rirs.  though some
>at least one rir is just dying to become net police, so it might 
>sell.
>
>  
>
We can set this up and provide the results for public consumption given 
the IP's and a minimum allocation from each one of the new blocks. (for 
the neccessary duration, unless permanent allocation for darkspace duty 
is acceptable)

Pete



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