announce prefix

Hi
Ofcourse the said network to be advertised is allocated and is
registered as allocated to an ISP. However there is no route object for
it ie say /20 of the network is assigned and the remaining part is not.
Could is it right to announce the whole /16 yet only /20 has been
assigned

Wycliffe
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 17:11, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 05:02:54PM +0300, Wycliffe Bahati wrote:
> > 	Do some providers out there have a problem accepting announcements that
> > do not have route objects created. 
> 
> Yes.  Without a route: object, there is no way to check whether the
> announcement is legitimate.
> 
> > I am considering a fact that an ISP 
> > could have a /16 however it has not assigned this address to anybody,
> > however they need to announce this in order to assign this to there
> > customers.
> 
> You don't need to have an assignment in the /16 to announce the whole
> allocation.  But it must be allocated to the ISP in question, of course.
> 
> Gert Doering
>         -- NetMaster
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