It seems as if I misinterpreted your earlier message summarizing the offline discussions Brian.
Splitting up the address space by delegations of smaller chunks to commercial service providers with different AS-numbers and policies will lead to a historical mistake. Is that what you propose in your latest message ? or am I missing something now?
The way to create the trust and support for a radio amateur policy is to keep it together by keeping the delegations inside the community under an amprnet as-number facilitating multi-homing without tunnels connecting the delegations to the outside world anywhere via peering and transit agreements and keeping the challenge of internal connectivity between delegations as the driver of innovation that will take radio amateurism to the next level.
Managing interdomain peering and transit via bgp, announcing delegated pieces of the 44/8 via different border routers is not difficult and can be done with low cost solutions and open source routing software, much cheaper than most rigs.
In what way will the ham community benefit from splitting up the resource? In no way that I can see, but there is a lot to loose.
Bjorn
On 2012-06-05 20:20, Brian Kantor wrote:
(Please trim inclusions from previous messages) _______________________________________________ On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 11:04:12AM -0700, Don Fanning wrote:
I was wondering how that worked for LEGACY. But isn't it sort of a chicken/egg issue? If you have an ASN , you can advertise 44/8. But if you don't, you have to meet the current ARIN standards? So really it's just the legal aspect that needs to be addressed so that the delegates aren't permanently transferred when delegated.
I believe the question of getting an ASN only comes up when a new peer comes on line (for example, a new ISP that has or plans to have multiple upstream NSPs).
Since it is likely that all delegations will be done via existing service providers, I think we don't need our own ASN at this time.
- Brian
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