New Draft Document: De-boganising New Address Blocks
Timothy Brown
tim at tux.org
Tue Feb 24 16:59:25 UTC 2004
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 04:32:46PM +0000, Michael.Dillon at radianz.com wrote:
>
> >The RIPE NCC has prepared a draft document titled "De-Bogonising New
> >Address Blocks":
>
> That is a misleading title.
>
> The problem is that ISPs cannot react quickly enough
> to open filters when new ranges are allocated. The proposed
> solution is to provide advance notification. I suppose this
> could allow ISPs to open filters before the new addresses
> are actually in use officially.
>
> However, it will also allow spammers to announce this
> space and get it through bogon filters.
>
> The real solution to this problem is to make it
> possible for ISPs to closely track RIR allocations
> in their filters in a semi-automated way. There may
> still be a few days of delay before a new allocation
> is fully routable but ISPs can compensate for that
> with internal processes.
>
> Why can't ISPs subscribe to a feed of all new
> RIPE allocations in near real-time?
Uh, bogon route server, hello?
http://www.cymru.com/BGP/bogon-rs.html
Tim
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