Sprint's route filters and Europe
Daniel Karrenberg
Daniel.Karrenberg at ripe.net
Mon Jun 3 16:09:19 UTC 1996
> "Alex.Bligh" <amb at xara.net> writes:
>
> Specifically RIPE are allocating /19s as their default allocation window
> to local-IRs. They don't charge per block but they charge a yearly fee
> for being a local-IR.
Nice to read something correct for a change. Thanks! ;-(
> Sprint in its wisdom is filtering those in 195/8
> (great theory, but a bit problematic in practice when it can't agree with
> one of the larger registries on what size to filter)
I happen to agree and Sprint happens to have changed their policy to one
that happens to be compatible with the NCC's allocation policy in the
meantime.
> with the result
> there are now likely to be 50% more adverts (i.e. 2x/19 and an additional
> /18 - /19 still necessary to get ANS to work as you can't put a /18
> route object in the database).
Yes you can! If you have a /18 allocation you should announce it as such
and put a /18 route object in the database. Can you be more specific
on why it did not work for you?
Daniel
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