Address Space & ASN Allocation Process

Tue Sep 27 02:25:14 UTC 2005

On Sep 26, 2005, at 8:27 PM, Justin M. Streiner wrote:

> I would recommend they register a maintainer, AS and appropriate route 
> objects in the RADB or one of the many IRR mirrors.  Some carriers 
> build their filters based off of IRR data.  That's still not a 
> guarantee of global routability, but keeping their records in good 
> order is a good start.

I'll second the route registry suggestion.  We turned up BGP about a 
year ago, and found that most of our traffic got bit-bucketed by big 
edge networks without registering routes.  If you don't want to pay 
RADB, you can use AltDB.

--Chris