69/8...this sucks

Tue Mar 11 08:30:15 UTC 2003

At 05:16 PM 10-03-03 -0800, Owen DeLong wrote:

>OK... I'm late to this discussion (been mostly ignoring it due to volume in
>other places), but, Sean's 911->855 mail makes me wonder...
>
>It seems to me that it would be relatively simple to solve this problem by
>doing the following:
>
>1.      ICANN (or an ICANN designee, such as ARIN) shall issue an ASN range
>         of 20 ASNs to be used as BOGON-ORIGINATE.
>
>2.      Each RIR should operate one or more routers with an open peering
>         policy which will perform the following functions:
>
>         A.      Advertise all unissued space allocated to the RIR as
>                 originating from an ASN allocated to <RIR>-BOGON.
>
>         B.      Peer with the corresponding routers at each of the other
>                 RIRs and accept and readvertise their BOGON list through
>                 BGP.
>
>         C.      Provide a full BOGON feed to any router that chooses to
>                 peer, but not accept any routes or non-BGP traffic from
>                 those routers.
>
>
>3.      Any provider which wishes to filter BOGONs could peer with the
>         closest one or two of these and set up route maps that modify
>         the next-hop for all BOGONs to be an address which is statically
>         routed to NULL0 on each of their routers.
>
>Apologies if this has been discussed before, but, it seems to me that this
>is the easiest way to make the data readily available to the community
>directly from the maintainers of the databases in a fashion which is
>automatically up to date.

As suggested, it has been discussed before.  See:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail-archives/lir-wg/2002/msg00815.html
Unfortunately, the answer I got from RIPE was that they will never do this.

-Hank

>Owen