On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 04:11:01PM -0400, Bryan Fields wrote:
Why not make this go to the local coordinator for approval? This way you only see the coordinator approved direct connected networks.
We used to do that. The problem was that people were taking the approval of coordination as authorization to have their subnet BGP-announced (which the local coordinator can't authorize) and then would go ahead and have their ISP start announcing it. To prevent this, we made it so that Direct requests come to me instead of to the local coordinator.
I suppose the portal could be modified so that when a local coordinator approves a Direct request, the approval notice isn't sent to the requestor but instead queues the request for subsequent approval by the Direct coordinator (currently me). This is a significant change in the way the portal works but might be the best solution. Chris? - Brian