Interesting ASN usage data point

Tue Oct 21 03:50:35 UTC 2003

On 20 Oct 2003, at 21:12, John Brown (CV) wrote:

> Interested data point

Those ASNs have all been assigned by the respective RIR (and LIR, in 
one case) to ISC for use as part of ISC's ongoing effort to distribute 
the F root nameserver globally.

Each of the anycast instances of F is designed to be autonomous and not 
directly connected to (or dependant on) the rest of ISC's network 
infrastructure. Each anycast node is deployed with a globally unique 
ASN.

Nodes in the Asia Pacific region have been deployed with ASNs obtained 
from APNIC (ISC is an APNIC member). Nodes in other regions have been 
obtained from ARIN (ISC is an ARIN member). 25572 corresponds to the F 
root anycast node in Madrid, which was the first local node we 
deployed. Our RIR strategy has been clarified since we rolled out that 
node.

I would be very happy to discuss the background for this design if 
others are interested. There are some notes available in the following 
document:

   http://www.isc.org/tn/isc-tn-2003-1.html

I'm currently in the bar if anybody at the meeting wants to learn more. 
I'm close to the epicentre of the long-range laser light show being put 
on by Avi (roll up! roll up! tour groups depart on the half hour! etc).

Joe