More long AS-sets announced

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Lorenzo Colitti wrote:

> Lorenzo Colitti wrote:
>> as part of our AS-set stuffing experiments (announced, including links to 
>> in-depth information, in [1]), we will be announcing unusually large 
>> AS-sets tomorrow, Thursday 16 June.
>
> Hi,
>
> due to unforeseen technical difficulties, we have been forced to postpone 
> these experiments. We plan to make the announcements at the same times on 
> Monday 20 June.
>
> The prefixes will be the same (84.205.73.0/24 and 84.205.89.0/24) and will be 
> originated by AS12654 as before, but the AS-set will consist of AS2121 
> repeated n times, so the paths will look like 12654 {2121, 2121, ..., 2121}. 
> AS2121 is the RIPE meeting AS, which is reserved for RIPE meetings and does 
> not currently appear in the global routing table.
>
> As before, should anyone encounter a problem with these experiments, please 
> let me know and I will take immediate action.

June 15th: Lorenzo gives us 24 hours notice that he is going to be using 
our (a very general our here, meaning all Internet operators) network for 
performing his experiments on. (oh, and points out that hes been doing the 
same with IPv6 since last year, just unannounced, but thats okay because 
noone noticed)

June 15th: Those that check their email frequently enough to spot this ask 
Lorenzo for at least a week notice before doing this in future.

June 20th: Lorenzo gives us same day notice that he will be using our 
network as his plaything again. Anyone sufficiently behind Lorenzo in the 
grand scheme of things (either they have better things to do than read 
their email all day, or perhaps they're on the west coast USA) won't even 
know about this until it is too late. If something strange happens I'm not 
sure everyone will suddenly think better check to see if Lorenzo is 
playing again.

I see the use of the Internet for experiments like this to be somewhat 
frivilous, and the notice periods given as warning even more so. I'm sure 
Lorenzo would not appreciate if I were to give 20 minutes warning of some 
clandestine experiment, such as announcing more specifics of his 
institutions prefixes as particularly helpful!

Regards
James