IPv4 and ASN Policy draft on-line

On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Randy Bush wrote:

> > 2) I think it needs to be specifically stated that the two upstream ISPs
> > must announce the ASN via BGP and must make that announcement to either
> > the global Internet or to a well recognized exchange point.
> 
> does mean that one can not be multi-homed to two tier >=twos, neither of
> which is at an ix?
> 
> well, reading differently, i guess i don't know what the global internet is
> when it needs to be differentiated from being at an ix.
> 
> what are you getting at?i am misunderstanding the criteria.

I'll try to explain what I am getting at.  Very often a newbie ISP doesn't
quite understand what this is all about.  They get an ASN cuz everyone
else has one.  Their upstream does static routing to them so rather than
having their /19 show up as AS34567, it shows up as origin=AS11111 (their
upstream).  

If I go the Oregon router server and look up their /19 and find only 1
path to that /19 or I find that the ASN origin has disappeared and been
replaced by their upstream then there is no justification for getting an
ASN.

> 
> randy
> 

Hank