[address-policy-wg] New Draft Document: De-boganising New Address Blocks

On Tuesday 24 February 2004 19:17, John Crain wrote:
> Jon,
>
> What you suggest is exactly what Team Cymru does by using the IANA pages
> This only works for the clueful though. It doesn't matter how much the
> RIR's and IANA announce the briningin into circulation of /8s there
> always seems to be those who are not watching for such issues, or who
> are totally unaware that the filters should and do change.

In theory, ISP's running BGP services should have some 'clue' and if they're 
using filters then they should know what they are etc etc.

> What Daniel is suggesting is a more pro-active approach on behalf of the
> RIR's. The advantage is that it may reach those who normally would not
> even be aware that they have an issue.

Whilst a proactive approach is a good idea, is it really the RIR's position to 
do this ? As has been said previously, it's not the RIR's responsibility to 
ensure routability of IP addtresses this must lie with the various ISP's.

Jon