[6bone] pTLA request NDSOFTWARE - review closes 23 October 2002

[Rico Gloeckner]

On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 07:15:28PM +0200, Nicolas DEFFAYET wrote:
> Why we close peering with private ASN the 23 October 2002:
> 
> We have 101 BGP4+ peer, our current routers are full (zebra is very
> unstable if i add new peer) and we want get new peer with other
> pTLA/sTLA that we can't get with our old private ASN.
> 
> We don't delete peers with private ASN because "private ASN sucks", we
> keep peering with important private ASN like NextGenCollective or
> IPNG-UK (this 2 projects projet provide a lot of tunnels to users). I
> understand their status, it's why i keep peering with them.
> 
> TDOI don't provide a lot of tunnels (more than 50) to users, it's for
> that reason that we shutdown your peering.

Ok, let me rephrase you:
| I close tunnels to small local Peers because i want to peer with Large
| Peers around the world.

Did I understand you correctly?

If so, i hope all your Peers will decrease the Priority to you to a very
minimum, because this is the best Way to fuck up IPv6-Routing.

	-rg

PS: I dont see how colocated Boxes qualify for the Attribute "IX",
let it be alone "First IPv6 IX in $TLD", if so there were sure some more
IPv6-only IXs before you in your TLD.