Im sailing past 30 years (like a few others here!) and I’ve only had to do this twice. Never for cross connects. Data centers wouldn’t want to hold up a cross connect fee.
HTH Warm regards, -M< On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 05:42 James Bensley via uknof < [email protected]> wrote: > On Monday, November 27th, 2023 at 05:03, Christopher Hawker < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > Aftab Siddiqui is currently exploring the possibility of using Route > Object Authorisations (ROAs) as a potential replacement to LOAs. > > > > Hi Christopher, > > This survey was sent to the NANOG list and there someone responded saying > that they have been in the service provider world for 10 years and only had > to send a LoA once, with regards to authorisation for IP announcements. > > I have been working in the SP world for 15-ish years and I have worked > with all Tier 1's at different points, and I have never had to send a LoA. > > My only experiences with LoA's is for DC cross-connects (in this context I > have sent and received many). So the survey seems flawed in that the first > question should be something like "do you send and accept LoA's regarding > prefix announcements" because, the survey is based on the assumption that > everyone is using LoAs for this, I think this initial assumption needs > clarifying. > > Cheers, > James. > >
