Multihoming - Resilience or Independence

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nipper, Arnold" <arnold at nipper.de>
To: "Steven Bakker" <steven at icoe.att.com>
Cc: "Stephen Burley" <stephenb at uk.uu.net>; "Gert Doering" <gert at space.net>;
"Dave Pratt" <djp-ripe-lists at djp.net>; <lir-wg at ripe.net>;
<routing-wg at ripe.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: Multihoming - Resilience or Independence


> > Read again.  Stephen wrote "SLA on the routing of the address space".
> > Global routing of anyone's address space is dependent on the routing
> > policies of individual (third-party) ISPs.  Some may be your direct
> > peers and you can have agreements with them; many others won't and
> > there's no way you can guarantee they'll route your customer's address
> > space.  The larger the prefix, the larger the chance of some network
> > operator out there filtering it to oblivion.
> >
>
> read again: the idea is to put all multi-homing customers in one region
into
> one prefix (ideally) (MH-pref) and one AS. The prefix should be large
enough
> to guarantee worldwide routing.

Er you can not reserve space so you can not do this and if you give them
enough space to garutee routing we are talking a /20 then that is LIR space
size...hhmmm.

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> -- Arnold
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