[arin-ppml] FW: Rationale for /22

[Michael K. Smith - Adhost]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net]
On
> Behalf Of Kevin Kargel
> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 11:22 AM
> To: ARIN PPML
> Subject: [arin-ppml] FW: Rationale for /22
> 
> 
> >
> > I think it's more about what I see of your customer's routes.  If
you
> > announce a /20 and your customer via another provider announces a
/23
> > I will always prefer that path.  So, my bits (and your revenue) will
> > go to the other provider.
> >
> > Mike
> 
> Which is absolutely fine by me if that's the way they want to balance
> their traffic.  My revenue is the same whether his circuit is 1% or
99%
> utilized.
> I don't understand why you would have a problem with it?
> 

Ah.  We bill on 95th percentile, so it does matter.

> If any of my upstream providers dictated that my traffic had to go
> through them things would get exciting real quick, or I would have a
> different provider.  This would be especially true in the case of a
> burstable circuit.
>

I don't dictate.  But, if my customer is announcing a de-aggregate of my
IP space, I announce the same de-aggregate.

Mike