[81580] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More long AS-sets announced
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Jun 20 03:44:52 2005
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 08:44:21 +0100
To: "James A. T. Rice" <james_r-ripelist@jump.org.uk>
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@ripe.net>, nanog@merit.edu,
routing-wg@ripe.net, sanog@sanog.org,
Henk Uijterwaal <henk@ripe.net>, compunet@dia.uniroma3.it
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> June 15th: Lorenzo gives us 24 hours notice that he is going to be using
> our (a very general our here, meaning all Internet operators) network for
> performing his experiments on. (oh, and points out that hes been doing the
> same with IPv6 since last year, just unannounced, but thats okay because
> noone noticed)
>
> June 15th: Those that check their email frequently enough to spot this ask
> Lorenzo for at least a week notice before doing this in future.
>
> June 20th: Lorenzo gives us same day notice that he will be using our
> network as his plaything again. Anyone sufficiently behind Lorenzo in the
> grand scheme of things (either they have better things to do than read
> their email all day, or perhaps they're on the west coast USA) won't even
> know about this until it is too late. If something strange happens I'm not
> sure everyone will suddenly think better check to see if Lorenzo is
> playing again.
>
> I see the use of the Internet for experiments like this to be somewhat
> frivilous, and the notice periods given as warning even more so. I'm sure
> Lorenzo would not appreciate if I were to give 20 minutes warning of some
> clandestine experiment, such as announcing more specifics of his
> institutions prefixes as particularly helpful!
he is announcing his own bleedin' prefixes. get a life
randy
