[94308] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How big a network is routed these days?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Wed Jan 17 18:42:37 2007
In-Reply-To: <E542AE7F-08AA-48D0-8C6D-D8E3A291C0B7@delong.com>
Cc: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>,
David Freedman <david.freedman@uk.clara.net>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:38:41 -0500
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 17-Jan-2007, at 18:36, Owen DeLong wrote:
> Actually, generally, the expectation under 4.4 is that the
> addresses will not be advertised at all for the most part, since,
> generally, there's no need to advertise the route to the exchange
> point, itself, into the global routing table. 4.4 is intended to
> support internet exchanges, ala MAEs, etc.
... and operators of critical DNS infrastructure, as the text I
quoted indicated. Not much point in numbering a TLD server out of a
block that isn't going to be advertised.
> In terms of 4.3.2.1 and 4.3.2.2, I believe ARIN has worked very
> hard to express no expectation or
> intent about how assignments relate to route advertisements and
> routing policy.
Indeed, as I believe I mentioned.
Joe
