Criteria for initial PA Allocation

Hi,

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:59:10AM +0200, Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote:
> => Yes, this might sound a bit harsh, but I'm *really* worried about
> => routeability and reachability of anything in the next couple of years.
> =
> =Yep... i see more than 104.000...
> 
>  Well, for the moment I consider that point moot.
>  
>   For quite a while the information has been made available (T.B., pfs
>   reports) where the Internet could be improved (routing-wise) by e.g.
>   aggregating and/or removing excessive announcements. In reality nobody
>   really seesm to care (more than uttering their disgust :-), otherwise we
>   would see real activity to get the broken ASes fixed (or filtered or
>   disconnected), and an improvement.

We started recently to filter all prefixes longer than /24, and publically 
announced this to the various IX mailing lists we're participating.

This got some discussion started, and some other ISPs here also stated
that they are doing it, or will start "soon".

This doesn't really help much, though, against broken CIDR announcements
(announcing a /19 and lots of more-specifics out of it) from ISPs that
Just Don't Care.  I don't really know how to attack that can of worms -
filtering all their /24's doesn't break their routing, so they couldn't
care less.  Stopping peering with them hurts us as well, so that's not
the road to go either. :-(

Gert Doering
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