Re: Creating an IPv6 addressing plan for end users

2011-03-24 Thread Nathalie Trenaman
Hi Liudvikas, Thank you very much for your feedback. On Mar 23, 2011, at 4:56 PM, Liudvikas Bukys wrote: Hi, I saw your document Preparing an IPv6 Addressing Plan after its URL was posted to NANOG. I have one small comment that perhaps you would consider in future revisions: The use

Re: The state-level attack on the SSL CA security model

2011-03-24 Thread Joakim Aronius
* Dobbins, Roland (rdobb...@arbor.net) wrote: On Mar 24, 2011, at 11:05 AM, Martin Millnert wrote: Announcing this high and loud even before fixes were available would not have exposed more users to threats, but less. An argument against doing this prior to fixes being available is

Re: The state-level attack on the SSL CA security model

2011-03-24 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Mar 24, 2011, at 6:19 PM, Joakim Aronius wrote: Surely the value of stolen certs are higher if the public do not know that they exist. A wider swathe of interested parties would know of their existence, and their existence would be officially confirmed, which would make them more

Re: The state-level attack on the SSL CA security model

2011-03-24 Thread Florian Weimer
* Roland Dobbins: A wider swathe of interested parties would know of their existence, and their existence would be officially confirmed, which would make them more valuable. This is at odds with what happens in other contexts. Disclosure devalues information. -- Florian Weimer

Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2011/3/23/4778509.html Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million by Milton Mueller on Wed 23 Mar 2011 10:30 PM EDT | Permanent Link | ShareThis Wake up call for our friends in the Regional Internet Registries. Nortel,

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Jay Nakamura
666,624 is kind of odd number, isn't it? That comes out to a /13,/15,/19,/21 and a /22. On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2011/3/23/4778509.html Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Tom Hill
On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 09:10 -0400, Jay Nakamura wrote: 666,624 is kind of odd number, isn't it? That comes out to a /13,/15,/19,/21 and a /22. Yeah, I was trying to work that out -- well done for persevering. :)

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Tony Finch
Jay Nakamura zeusda...@gmail.com wrote: 666,624 is kind of odd number, isn't it? That comes out to a /13,/15,/19,/21 and a /22. From the court documents I gather that it is a collection of miscellaneous blocks that Nortel acquired over the years, presumable via corporate MA. However there

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Bret Clark
Why would Microsoft need this many IP's? I could see the benefiting service providers much more. On 03/24/2011 09:27 AM, Tony Finch wrote: Jay Nakamurazeusda...@gmail.com wrote: 666,624 is kind of odd number, isn't it? That comes out to a /13,/15,/19,/21 and a /22. From the court

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Garrett Skjelstad
yay cloud. On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Bret Clark bcl...@spectraaccess.comwrote: Why would Microsoft need this many IP's? I could see the benefiting service providers much more.

Re: Creating an IPv6 addressing plan for end users

2011-03-24 Thread Owen DeLong
On Mar 24, 2011, at 1:06 AM, Nathalie Trenaman wrote: Hi Liudvikas, Thank you very much for your feedback. On Mar 23, 2011, at 4:56 PM, Liudvikas Bukys wrote: Hi, I saw your document Preparing an IPv6 Addressing Plan after its URL was posted to NANOG. I have one small comment

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Bret Clark bcl...@spectraaccess.com wrote: Why would Microsoft need this many IP's? I could see the benefiting service providers much more. Microsoft runs Hotmail. Office Live and a bunch of other services you might have heard of. And if every common or garden

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Owen DeLong
On Mar 24, 2011, at 6:20 AM, Tom Hill wrote: On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 09:10 -0400, Jay Nakamura wrote: 666,624 is kind of odd number, isn't it? That comes out to a /13,/15,/19,/21 and a /22. Yeah, I was trying to work that out -- well done for persevering. :) Sounds like the pieces of

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Joe Provo
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 01:27:29PM +, Tony Finch wrote: Jay Nakamura zeusda...@gmail.com wrote: 666,624 is kind of odd number, isn't it? That comes out to a /13,/15,/19,/21 and a /22. From the court documents I gather that it is a collection of miscellaneous blocks that Nortel

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 09:32:21AM -0400, Bret Clark wrote: Why would Microsoft need this many IP's? I could see the benefiting service providers much more. I think the more interesting question is why would Microsoft pay $7.5 million for something they can, at least for

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Aaron Wendel
That's a good question. Maybe they can't qualify under Arin rules. Another question will be: how is Arin going to handle it? Im pretty sure that the RSA says that in the event of bankruptcy ips revert to the Arin pool. I understand that these were legacy addresses but... Aaron Sent

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Tore Anderson
* Leo Bicknell I think the more interesting question is why would Microsoft pay $7.5 million for something they can, at least for the moment, get for free. A very interesting question indeed! However, they can only get them for free from ARIN if they can document an immediate demand. Perhaps

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:27:58 CDT, Aaron Wendel said: That's a good question. Maybe they can't qualify under Arin rules. Another question will be: how is Arin going to handle it? Im pretty sure that the RSA says that in the event of bankruptcy ips revert to the Arin pool. I understand

Re: The state-level attack on the SSL CA security model

2011-03-24 Thread Leif Nixon
Harald Koch c...@pobox.com writes: On 3/23/2011 11:05 PM, Martin Millnert wrote: To my surprise, I did not see a mention in this community of the latest proof of the complete failure of the SSL CA model to actually do what it is supposed to: provide security, rather than a false sense of

RE: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Jim Gonzalez
Just wondering if Microsoft has to justify the address space once they change ownerships with Arin ? -Original Message- From: Tore Anderson [mailto:tore.ander...@redpill-linpro.com] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 10:40 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Mar 24, 2011, at 7:40 AM, Tore Anderson wrote: They can only get them for free from ARIN if they can document an immediate demand. Perhaps they don't have an immediate demand… They can only get them _at all_ if they can document need. All receipt of address space, whether from the

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Hank Nussbacher
At 15:40 24/03/2011 +0100, Tore Anderson wrote: Either way, it sure seems they're speculating that the market price of an IPv4 address is going to rise to more than US$11.25. Anything that has ceased to be produced and has demand will go up in value. Just rename IPv4 as Pontiac GTO. -Hank

Re: The state-level attack on the SSL CA security model

2011-03-24 Thread Tony Finch
Harald Koch c...@pobox.com wrote: This story strikes me as a success - the certs were revoked immediately, and it took a surprisingly short amount of time for security fixes to appear all over the place. It would have been much easier if certificate revocation actually worked properly.

Re: The state-level attack on the SSL CA security model

2011-03-24 Thread Dan White
On 24/03/11 10:09 -0400, Harald Koch wrote: On 3/23/2011 11:05 PM, Martin Millnert wrote: To my surprise, I did not see a mention in this community of the latest proof of the complete failure of the SSL CA model to actually do what it is supposed to: provide security, rather than a false sense

Re: The state-level attack on the SSL CA security model

2011-03-24 Thread Richard Barnes
Which is especially funny since Comodo is citing the fact that they've had no OCSP requests for the bad certs as evidence that they haven't been used. --Richard On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Tony Finch d...@dotat.at wrote: Harald Koch c...@pobox.com wrote: This story strikes me as a

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Tore Anderson
* Bill Woodcock They can only get them _at all_ if they can document need. All receipt of address space, whether from the free-pool or through a transfer, is needs-based. I've understood that this claim is undisputed *only* for address space that is covered by the ARIN LRSA or any other

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Larry Blunk
On 03/24/2011 10:06 AM, Joe Provo wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 01:27:29PM +, Tony Finch wrote: Jay Nakamurazeusda...@gmail.com wrote: 666,624 is kind of odd number, isn't it? That comes out to a /13,/15,/19,/21 and a /22. From the court documents I gather that it is a collection of

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Randy Bush
They can only get them _at all_ if they can document need. All receipt of address space, whether from the free-pool or through a transfer, is needs-based. Anything else would be removing a critical resource from use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canute

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Mar 24, 2011, at 10:27 58AM, Aaron Wendel wrote: That's a good question. Maybe they can't qualify under Arin rules. Another question will be: how is Arin going to handle it? Im pretty sure that the RSA says that in the event of bankruptcy ips revert to the Arin pool. I understand

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread John Curran
On Mar 24, 2011, at 8:57 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2011/3/23/4778509.html Read the comment at the end (attached here for reference). /John John Curran President and CEO ARIN Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, Requests Approval of Sale of IPv4

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread John Curran
On Mar 24, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Randy Bush wrote: They can only get them _at all_ if they can document need. All receipt of address space, whether from the free-pool or through a transfer, is needs-based. Anything else would be removing a critical resource from use.

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread mikea
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:34:13AM -0400, Steven Bellovin wrote: On Mar 24, 2011, at 10:27 58AM, Aaron Wendel wrote: That's a good question. Maybe they can't qualify under Arin rules. Another question will be: how is Arin going to handle it? Im pretty sure that the RSA says that

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Owen DeLong
Actually ARIN rules don't say anything about bankruptcy. However, in the event that the organization ceases to exist and there is no successor organization taking over the network infrastructure under an 8.2 transfer, yes, the resources would revert to ARIN. The only other (legitimate)

Comcast contact for DNS issues

2011-03-24 Thread Xiaonan Xie
Does anyone know or works for Comcast that can deal with DNS Issues? Please reply to me :) Thanks

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Randy Bush
They can only get them _at all_ if they can document need. All receipt of address space, whether from the free-pool or through a transfer, is needs-based. Anything else would be removing a critical resource from use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canute Thank you Randy. Give Canute a

IN-ADDR.ARPA Nameserver Change Complete

2011-03-24 Thread Joe Abley
IN-ADDR.ARPA NAMESERVER CHANGE COMPLETE This is a courtesy notification of the completion of a change to the nameserver set for the IN-ADDR.ARPA zone. There is no expected impact on the functional operation of the DNS due to this change. There are no actions required by DNS server operators or

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Tore Anderson tore.ander...@redpill-linpro.com wrote: * Bill Woodcock They can only get them _at all_ if they can document need.  All receipt of address space, whether from the free-pool or through a transfer, is needs-based. I've understood that this claim

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread David Conrad
John, On Mar 24, 2011, at 5:42 AM, John Curran wrote: As usual, I will simply point out to folks that ARIN will indeed administer the policy as adopted, and will explain it as necessary in various courtrooms. Oddly, when I said something similar a few years back, I was accused of

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread David Conrad
On Mar 24, 2011, at 8:15 AM, William Herrin wrote: Legacy address transferability has been disputed before. Kremen v. ARIN. Kremen lost. Yes, Kremen lost, but not based on anything related to address policy: http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2007/01/kremen_loses_ch_1.htm Regards, -drc

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Ernie Rubi
Agreed, Look at: http://ciara.fiu.edu/publications/Rubi%20-%20Property%20Rights%20in%20IP%20Numbers.pdf Even assuming Kremen was decided as ARIN says; United States District Courts can and do disagree. On Mar 24, 2011, at 2:24 PM, David Conrad wrote: Yes, Kremen lost, but not based on

Regional AS model

2011-03-24 Thread Zaid Ali
I have seen age old discussions on single AS vs multiple AS for backbone and datacenter design. I am particularly interested in operational challenges for running AS per region e.g. one AS for US, one EU etc or I have heard folks do one AS per DC. I particularly don't see any advantage in doing

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Ernie Rubi erne...@cs.fiu.edu wrote:  http://ciara.fiu.edu/publications/Rubi%20-%20Property%20Rights%20in%20IP%20Numbers.pdf Even assuming Kremen was decided as ARIN says; United States District Courts can and do disagree. Hi Ernie, The case you refer to was a

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread aaron
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:10:14 -0400, Larry Blunk l...@merit.edu wrote: On 03/24/2011 10:06 AM, Joe Provo wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 01:27:29PM +, Tony Finch wrote: Jay Nakamurazeusda...@gmail.com wrote: 666,624 is kind of odd number, isn't it? That comes out to a /13,/15,/19,/21 and

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Owen DeLong
Sent from my iPad On Mar 24, 2011, at 8:40 AM, Tore Anderson tore.ander...@redpill-linpro.com wrote: * Leo Bicknell I think the more interesting question is why would Microsoft pay $7.5 million for something they can, at least for the moment, get for free. A very interesting question

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:07 PM, aa...@wholesaleinternet.net wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:10:14 -0400, Larry Blunk l...@merit.edu wrote: On 03/24/2011 10:06 AM, Joe Provo wrote: Exhibit B expressly indicates they were listed but filed under seal; interesting to request that.  Previous

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Owen DeLong
Sent from my iPad On Mar 24, 2011, at 8:43 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:27:58 CDT, Aaron Wendel said: That's a good question. Maybe they can't qualify under Arin rules. Another question will be: how is Arin going to handle it? Im pretty sure that the RSA

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:15:45 EDT, William Herrin said: Legacy address transferability has been disputed before. Kremen v. ARIN. Kremen lost. Yes, but Microsoft's lawyers can probably beat up ARIN's lawyers. pgp5OIWovGzD3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Regional AS model

2011-03-24 Thread Owen DeLong
Sent from my iPad On Mar 24, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Zaid Ali z...@zaidali.com wrote: I have seen age old discussions on single AS vs multiple AS for backbone and datacenter design. I am particularly interested in operational challenges for running AS per region e.g. one AS for US, one EU etc

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Ernie Rubi
Alright, how about this - let's wait and see what the bankruptcy judge says. Which firm do you practice for? On Mar 24, 2011, at 3:05 PM, William Herrin wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Ernie Rubi erne...@cs.fiu.edu wrote:

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Ernie Rubi erne...@cs.fiu.edu wrote: Alright, how about this - let's wait and see what the bankruptcy judge says. With bated breath. -Bill -- William D. Herrin her...@dirtside.com  b...@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. .. Web:

Re: Regional AS model

2011-03-24 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Mar 24, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Mar 24, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Zaid Ali z...@zaidali.com wrote: I have seen age old discussions on single AS vs multiple AS for backbone and datacenter design. I am particularly interested in operational challenges for running AS per region

Re: The state-level attack on the SSL CA security model

2011-03-24 Thread Brian Keefer
On Mar 24, 2011, at 7:09 AM, Harald Koch wrote: On 3/23/2011 11:05 PM, Martin Millnert wrote: To my surprise, I did not see a mention in this community of the latest proof of the complete failure of the SSL CA model to actually do what it is supposed to: provide security, rather than a false

Re: Regional AS model

2011-03-24 Thread Jeffrey S. Young
Multiple AS, one per region, is about extracting maximum revenue from your client base. In 2000 we had no technical reason to do it, I can't see a technical reason to do it today. This is a layer 8/9 issue. jy On 25/03/2011, at 5:42 AM, Zaid Ali z...@zaidali.com wrote: I have seen age old

Re: Regional AS model

2011-03-24 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Mar 24, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Mar 24, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Mar 24, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Zaid Ali z...@zaidali.com wrote: I have seen age old discussions on single AS vs multiple AS for backbone and datacenter design. I am particularly interested

Re: The state-level attack on the SSL CA security model

2011-03-24 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Mar 24, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: Disclosure devalues information. I think this case is different, given the perception of the cert as a 'thing' to be bartered. --- Roland Dobbins rdobb...@arbor.net //

Re: The state-level attack on the SSL CA security model

2011-03-24 Thread Franck Martin
- Original Message - From: Roland Dobbins rdobb...@arbor.net To: nanog group nanog@nanog.org Sent: Friday, 25 March, 2011 9:33:27 AM Subject: Re: The state-level attack on the SSL CA security model On Mar 24, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: Disclosure devalues

Re: The state-level attack on the SSL CA security model

2011-03-24 Thread George Herbert
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Franck Martin fra...@genius.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Roland Dobbins rdobb...@arbor.net To: nanog group nanog@nanog.org Sent: Friday, 25 March, 2011 9:33:27 AM Subject: Re: The state-level attack on the SSL CA security model On Mar 24,

Re: Regional AS model

2011-03-24 Thread David Conrad
On Mar 24, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Jeffrey S. Young wrote: Multiple AS, one per region, is about extracting maximum revenue from your client base. In 2000 we had no technical reason to do it, I can't see a technical reason to do it today. This is a layer 8/9 issue.

Re: Regional AS model

2011-03-24 Thread Graham Wooden
Quoting Zaid Ali z...@zaidali.com: I have seen age old discussions on single AS vs multiple AS for backbone and datacenter design. I am particularly interested in operational challenges for running AS per region e.g. one AS for US, one EU etc or I have heard folks do one AS per DC. I

Re: Regional AS model

2011-03-24 Thread Danny McPherson
On Mar 24, 2011, at 5:45 PM, David Conrad wrote: On Mar 24, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Jeffrey S. Young wrote: Multiple AS, one per region, is about extracting maximum revenue from your client base. In 2000 we had no technical reason to do it, I can't see a technical reason to do it today. This

Re: Regional AS model

2011-03-24 Thread Michael Hallgren
Le jeudi 24 mars 2011 à 14:26 -0700, Bill Woodcock a écrit : On Mar 24, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Mar 24, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Mar 24, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Zaid Ali z...@zaidali.com wrote: I have seen age old discussions on single AS vs multiple AS

Re: The state-level attack on the SSL CA security model

2011-03-24 Thread Danny O'Brien
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Harald Koch c...@pobox.com wrote: On 3/23/2011 11:05 PM, Martin Millnert wrote: To my surprise, I did not see a mention in this community of the latest proof of the complete failure of the SSL CA model to actually do what it is supposed to: provide security,

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread David Conrad
Owen, I (and I presume Eric Goldman, author of the post I referenced) was looking at Judge James Ware's actual ruling (http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/california/candce/5:2006cv02554/181054/41/). I don't see anything in there discussing that 'the transfer had to be done

Peering Traffic Volume

2011-03-24 Thread Ravi Ramaswamy
Hi All - I am new to this mailer. Hopefully my question is posed to the correct list. I am using 2.5 Tbps as the peak volume of peering traffic over all peering points for a Tier 1 ISP, for some modeling purposes. Is that a reasonable estimate? Thanks Ravi

Re: Regional AS model

2011-03-24 Thread Jeffrey S. Young
While it's a very interesting read and it's always nice to know what Danny is up to, the concept is a pretty extreme corner case when you consider the original question. I took the original question to be about global versus regional AS in a provider backbone. On the other hand if we'd had

Re: Regional AS model

2011-03-24 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Graham Wooden gra...@g-rock.net wrote: with one site being in the middle. I only have one public AS, but I have selected doing the confederation approach (which some may consider to be overkill with only three edges). There are really several issues to

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Martin Millnert
List, since there are IRR databases operated by non-RIRs, does one need to register a prefix in any RIR-DB at all, to see it reachable on the Internet? Have there been any presentations/research done on reachability of RIR-registered vs non-RIR-registered vs completely unregistered

Google Geolocation

2011-03-24 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
Would someone from Google please contact me offlist? You're geolocating some of $DAYJOB's IP space to the Netherlands, and I'm not sure how to fix it. Sadly, very few of my $DAYJOB's customers in Seattle are fluent in Dutch. (If there's an obvious form somewhere to fix this, and I missed it,

Re: Google Geolocation

2011-03-24 Thread Andy Warner
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Nathan Eisenberg nat...@atlasnetworks.us wrote: Would someone from Google please contact me offlist?  You're geolocating some of $DAYJOB's IP space to the Netherlands, and I'm not sure how to fix it.   Sadly, very few of my $DAYJOB's customers in Seattle are

Re: Regional AS model

2011-03-24 Thread Christopher LILJENSTOLPE
On 25Mar2011, at 09.17, Michael Hallgren wrote: Le jeudi 24 mars 2011 à 14:26 -0700, Bill Woodcock a écrit : On Mar 24, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Mar 24, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Mar 24, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Zaid Ali z...@zaidali.com wrote: I have seen

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread John Curran
On Mar 24, 2011, at 9:13 PM, Benson Schliesser wrote: At your suggestion, I went to the IGP blog and read the last comment. I see there is a response by Ernie Rubi to your blog comment, which captures my question so well that (with apologies to Mr Rubi) I'll quote him: Mr. Rubi is likely

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Joe Provo
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 08:13:46PM -0500, Benson Schliesser wrote: [snip] It's obvious that ARIN, as well as other whois database providers, should pay attention to the proceedings. But under what premise might ARIN act as a party to this lawsuit? The proper question might be that if neither

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Jeff Wheeler
What is needed is for the networks in the transit-free club to decide they will not honor any gray market route advertisements resulting from extra-normal transfers of this nature, whether the announcement is from a peer or a customer. As we are all aware, no real dent was ever made in routing

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Matthew Kaufman matt...@matthew.at wrote: On 3/24/2011 7:59 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: Because that's what IP addresses are.  Totally worthless unless community participants voluntarily route traffic for those IPs to the assignee. Would de-peer with Microsoft (or

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Mar 24, 2011, at 11:15 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Matthew Kaufman matt...@matthew.at wrote: On 3/24/2011 7:59 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: Because that's what IP addresses are. Totally worthless unless community participants voluntarily route traffic for those IPs

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Ernie Rubi
Bankruptcy courts have done this with phone numbers, read my paper - the 'phone number as assets' in bankruptcy cases are cited in there. Just saying Sent from my iPhone On Mar 24, 2011, at 10:59 PM, Jimmy Hess mysi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 8:24 PM, John Curran

Re: Peering Traffic Volume

2011-03-24 Thread Charles N Wyble
On 3/24/2011 10:34 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Mar 24, 2011, at 7:27 PM, Ravi Ramaswamy wrote: Tier 1 ISP is a nebulous term. Indeed it is. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peering and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_network for more information. I'm guessing you are using Tier 1

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Benson Schliesser
On Mar 24, 2011, at 9:59 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: So I wonder rhetorically speaking.. what happens when a bankruptcy court accidentally sells something that doesn't actually exist, ... Because that's what IP addresses are. Totally worthless unless community participants voluntarily route