[mat-wg] RIS anchor/beacon changes

Dear all,

This work has been completed as planned.

Kind regards,
Martin Pels
RIPE NCC

On 05/12/2023 13:35, Martin Pels (RIPE NCC) wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> In the coming months we will be making several changes in the prefix 
> advertisements by RIS Route Collectors. These changes were discussed 
> previously on RIPE Labs[0].
> 
> January 2nd 2024
> ----------------
> The following BGP announcements will be disabled:
> 
>    * IPv4 anchor+beacon announcements on RRC04, RRC07, RRC10, RRC13, 
> RRC14, RRC15, RRC16, RRC21 and RRC22
>    * IPv4 anycast failover simulation beacon (84.205.72.0/24) on RRC03 
> and RRC14
> 
> All IPv6 anchor+beacon announcements will remain.
> 
> February 1st 2024
> -----------------
> We will be enabling the following new prefix advertisements:
> 
>    * A single anycast IPv4 and IPv6 anchor+beacon pair per RIR region, 
> advertised from each RRC in this region.
>    * An anycast IPv4 /25 and /28 anchor, advertised from one RRC per RIR 
> region
>    * An anycast IPv6 /56 and /64 anchor, advertised from one RRC per RIR 
> region
> 
> To accommodate these changes we will also modify the encoding used in 
> the BGP AGGREGATOR attribute.
> 
> For full details and an overview of all anchor and beacon prefixes, 
> please refer to our updated documentation[1].
> 
> Kind regards,
> Martin Pels
> RIPE NCC
> 
> [0] 
> https://labs.ripe.net/author/emileaben/ris-beaconing-shining-a-light-on-bgp-dynamics/
> [1] https://ris.ripe.net/docs/routing-beacons
>