Towards a Disjoint IRR

All,

The Advisory AS690 lines were initially intended as a transition step
to last from December through March 1995.  Needless to say, we fell way
behind this schedule.

Curtis has a plan coded and in testing which will make Advisory lines
totally--well:  advisory.  Under his plan, all policy expressions in
the AS690 aut-num object will be AS-based, but advisory attributes
can be used to give end-AS suggestions to AS690 about how they would
like their routing handled.

It may well be the the RIPE database can totally ignore the advisory
concept, and that Curtis' scheme will handle RIPE-based registrations
well anyway.  (MCI can continue its current use of Advisories as they
like).  I hope this is true;  it would be wonderful.  But ANS
will have to speak for these details;  they are in control of that
situation now.

--Dale

> + If you suspect you have newer data, please tell the user asking where he
>   wants to be registered. If the user is European suggest registering in
>   the RIPE RR.
> 
>   >    AND WHICH HAS ADVISORY AS690 LINES, remove that net from the RADB?
> 
> Usually we are not happy about modifying user data. After requests from
> our users and some evaluation we are prepared to make an exception for
> the 'advisory: AS690' attributes, provided we can receive a complete list
> of them from you at the flag day. We will then add those to the RIPE RR
> and tell the users.

Flag day is scheduled for next Monday, May 8.  (Hopefully).



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