Pitfalls of _accepting_ /24s

2003-10-16 Thread jlewis
On the topic of announcing PA /24's, what procedures do you take to make sure that a new customer who want's to announce a few PA (P being one or more P's other than yourself) IP space is legit and should be announcing that IP space? I'm not sure what they do internally, but I know Sprint,

RE: Pitfalls of _accepting_ /24s

2003-10-16 Thread Terry Baranski
jlewis wrote: On the topic of announcing PA /24's, what procedures do you take to make sure that a new customer who want's to announce a few PA (P being one or more P's other than yourself) IP space is legit and should be announcing that IP space? I'm also interested in hearing current

RE: Pitfalls of _accepting_ /24s

2003-10-16 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
A proposal was made some years ago, which I thought was by Tony Li, but, IIRC, he says it wasn't original with him. It does require cooperation from competitors, but can reduce the number of announcements. Under some circumstances, it may cause blackholing, but so can /24 filtering. The idea