Verio Decides what parts of the internet to drop

Mon Dec 6 07:04:12 UTC 1999

I mean that, if there is rule no allow some prefixes, all ISP should follow this
rule. All! It's the issue.

Else, we have just what we have tiday - everything work, but some stohastic
filtering add a lot of unpredicted behaviour into the routing. I know a lot of
such specifics (class B / 24, see 144.206.* for example) which (1) work OK, (2)
surely some part of the routing follow 144.206/16, but at some point /24
speciics appear and routing became just as it should be).

Today, the only 2 rules are:
(1) some blocks (195.* etc) can't use more than /20 (npot /19) specifics; it
began a few years ago due to the Sprint policy;
(2) Less than /24 announces are not mainly allowed.

If someone want more (and no doubt many ISP want), let's they follow some
negotiated rulesa and ask another to follow this rules, too.

Alex R (now not ISP network engeneer, through).

On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Yakov Rekhter wrote:

> Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 05:53:57 -0800
> From: Yakov Rekhter <yakov at cisco.com>
> To: Alex P. Rudnev <alex at virgin.relcom.eu.net>
> Cc: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Verio Decides what parts of the internet to drop 
> 
> Alex,
>  
> > may be - but it shoudl be written in the RFC, not in the VERIO's policy. The
> > global policy must be THE SAME over the global Internet.
> 
> What would make such a policy "THE SAME over the global Internet" ?
> 
> Yakov.
> 

Aleksei Roudnev,
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