IP ranges, re- announcing 'PA space' via BGP, etc

Fri Apr 14 22:12:47 UTC 2006

I would expect some sort of confirmation that Level3 has allocated  
the block to them - if there is no swip or RADB object, the customer  
should request that Level3 create one (or both). If Level3 cannot do  
either (unlikely) I'd request direct contact from Level3 confirming  
the allocation.

-C

On Apr 14, 2006, at 4:26 PM, Andy Davidson wrote:

>
> On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 01:13:19PM +0200, Alexander Koch wrote:
>> When a random customer (content hoster) asks you to accept
>> something out of 8/8 that is Level(3) space, and there is no
>> route at this moment in the routing table, do you accept it,
>> or does Level(3) have some fancy written formal process and
>> they get approval to do it, etc.?
>
> Initial instinct has to just be 'yuck', but in the interest of getting
> the job done, I'd look at :
>
>  - how is it registered ?  Are your customer mentioned ?
>  - is it already a prefix which is announced seperately from the  
> rest of
>    the aggregated block ?
>  - if the customer wants to multihome, have they even considered PI ?
>  - are the customer happy for you to talk to the aggregating company ?
>    are you happy to talk to them ?
>  - it's still 'yuck'.
>
>
> -a
>