[ppml] Deaggregation in the ARIN region Was: [nanog] The Cidr Report

[Jon Lewis]

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Andrew Dul wrote:

> I was wondering if people in the ARIN region agreed with these statements
> about the ARIN region not doing enough to educate the membership about
> deaggregation, BGP annoucements etc...
>
> If ARIN were to do more what would you suggest?
>
> 1. More/Better online training
> 2. Regional Training session (similar to RIPE?)

Whether or not ARIN actually did any training courses, it would be nice to
see some info on BCPs for BGP routing in the training section of the ARIN
web site rather than just "how to use whois" and "how to jump through the
hoops to get IP space".

Too many networks deaggregate their announcements for no reason simply
because they don't realize there's any reason they shouldn't.

Covering things like route filtering (i.e. not leaking provider A's routes
to provider B) would be nice.  Might even mention the use of routing
registries (radb, altdb, ARIN's own one, etc.).

To make a bad analogy, right now, ARIN's like a gun shop selling guns with
no manuals and no safety literature.  Not everyone who's buying knows how
to use them safely.

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