On Mon, 4 Apr 2016, David Huberman wrote:
1) It's a trade-off, right? A network operator who absolutely must have
a 2-byte either has equipment that hasn't been updated in 6+ years, or
is having an issue like BGP communities where the solution they want to
implement requires a 2-byte (rather than what Owen is talking about).
Their network, their rules. So if they want a 2-byte, and ARIN has
inventory of 2-bytes -- but they're found in the DFZ -- that requires
the network operator to make a decision.
If both networks point default at a transit provider, traffic exchange
can still work...but as Job said, they will (by default) ignore each
other's routes regardless of how many AS-hops separate them.
2) ARIN staff (me!) spent many years trying to get upstreams to help us
deal with the backlog of ASNs which were (from a Registry perspective)
being squatted on. And these arent published in Whois btw. But it was
simply too much volume to handle. The upstreams are primarily concerned
with profit, and customer relations, and this was very much a low
priority. Then add in high volume for 7018 or someone like that, and it
became completely untenable. In your scenario, it's less volume. But
success in this path is not an expectation I would want to set for
anyone who is fine taking a routed ASN.
If ARIN has a large pool of ASNs which it believes ARIN is responsible
for, and are not being paid for, i.e. ASN squatters, then WTH are these
ASN's not published in whois as Unused/Reserved/Reclaimed/whatever
term/language ARIN comes up with that clearly identifies the ASN as not
belonging to whoever might be trying to use it? That just might help
deter transit providers from allowing customers to use them. An automated
periodic email to peeringdb/whois contacts for the immediate upstream ASNs
would at least notify/remind networks that they're providing transit to an
org squatting on an ASN.
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