72/8 friendly reminder

Wed Mar 23 19:28:22 UTC 2005

Randy Bush wrote:

>i do not understand what you are proposing.  ahhh.  you mean
>  o each asn register a pingable address within its normal space,
>    maybe in their irr route object
>  o the rirs set up a routing island with only the new prefix in
>    it
>  o from a box with that new prefix, the rir pings all asn's 
>    registered pingable addresses from the first step
>  o whine about any which are not pingable
>
>interesting modulo issues of reachability at any one time.  and
>places more of a routing policing burden on the rirs.  though some
>at least one rir is just dying to become net police, so it might 
>sell.
>
>  
>
We can set this up and provide the results for public consumption given 
the IP's and a minimum allocation from each one of the new blocks. (for 
the neccessary duration, unless permanent allocation for darkspace duty 
is acceptable)

Pete