I would expect some sort of confirmation that Level3 has allocated
the block to them - if there is no swip or RADB object, the customer
should request that Level3 create one (or both). If Level3 cannot do
either (unlikely) I'd request direct contact from Level3 confirming
the allocation.
-C
On Apr 14, 2006, at 4:26 PM, Andy Davidson wrote:
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 01:13:19PM +0200, Alexander Koch wrote:
When a random customer (content hoster) asks you to accept
something out of 8/8 that is Level(3) space, and there is no
route at this moment in the routing table, do you accept it,
or does Level(3) have some fancy written formal process and
they get approval to do it, etc.?
Initial instinct has to just be 'yuck', but in the interest of getting
the job done, I'd look at :
- how is it registered ? Are your customer mentioned ?
- is it already a prefix which is announced seperately from the
rest of
the aggregated block ?
- if the customer wants to multihome, have they even considered PI ?
- are the customer happy for you to talk to the aggregating company ?
are you happy to talk to them ?
- it's still 'yuck'.
-a
