Description of Inter-AS Networks in the RIPE Routing Registry

  > Curtis Villamizar <curtis at ans.net> writes:
  > 
  > Does this mean that if ANS or Merit announces the FixW FDDI, Barrnet
  > and NASA can't add a pair of routers only peering with each other on
  > the ring?  

No!
Any peering across the inter-AS network ispossible.
It means that  the ripe-81 model can only describe one AS announcng  
the inter-AS network *itself* to twhe world. ripe-81 allows only
one originating AS (in bgp terms) per net.

  > Alternet and PSI at College Park are are another example,
  > but I'm not sure who would "own" that network.  (no side discussions
  > on this please - redirect to alt.bizarre.politics.gix or /dev/null :).

Ownership is not an issue of the routing registry.


Daniel