Little Problem

[Robert J. Rockell]

Optimally, if we follow *current* aggregation rules, one would never need an
ASN, except in pTLA situation, as different block allocated per upstream
'provider'... so static routing works fine. Just my $.02

Thanks
Rob Rockell
Principal Engineer
SprintLink Europe/Asia
(+1) 703-689-6322
Sprint IP Services : Thinking outside the 435 box
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Marc Blanchet wrote:

->another twist on the same line, trying to help:
->- you could use private AS numbers to do peering for some reasons
->- however, to be a pTLA, then you need an allocated AS number, unique, so
->that your routes are tagged to you on the global routing table.
->
->Marc.
->
->
->-- jeudi, janvier 10, 2002 12:27:55 -0800 Bob Fink <fink@es.net> wrote/a
->écrit:
->
->> At 08:39 PM 1/10/2002 +0100, Matteo Tescione wrote:
->>> Hello Bob, thanks a lot for your quick answer.
->>> Now everything is just most clear but in rfc2772 i can't see why a site
->>> without their own asn cannot use the upstream provider's asn to request a
->>> pTLA. Can you explain me this?
->>
->> If you are a pTLA their is no upstream IPv6 provider. If you mean use
->> your IPv4 provider's ASN, then you prevent them from ever using it for v6
->> and I'm sure they wouldn't like that :-)
->>
->> The issue is having a unique ASN in the global routing infrastructure.
->>
->>
->> Bob
->>
->
->
->
->------------------------------------------
->Marc Blanchet
->Viagénie
->tel: +1-418-656-9254x225
->
->------------------------------------------
->http://www.freenet6.net: IPv6 connectivity
->------------------------------------------
->http://www.normos.org: IETF(RFC,draft),
->  IANA,W3C,... standards.
->------------------------------------------
->