18 Jun
2013
18 Jun
'13
12:14 a.m.
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:38:56PM -0400, Bryan Fields wrote:
This actually brings up a good question, as some point
this weekend I'll have
44.98.254.0/24 announced via BGP out of 12083.
The Florida coordinator said I should be good to go with this once I got the
assignment completed, is this not the case?
You were misinformed; the regional coordinators aren't authorized to
approve BGP-connected subnets. They can allocate the subnet but can't
yet approve the connection/advertisement. That has to be done by the
network manager, currently me.
At this time, BGP advertisement of subnets requires specific authorization
from us; there's an application and approval procedure that needs to be gone
through so that alarms don't go off and we don't think another part of our
network is being hijacked.
We've had to contact NSPs before and tell them that they were hijacking a piece
of our network and to please stop. So far they've all been cooperative, but it
has taken some significant explanation to get the problem escalated to someone
who understands what's wrong and why.
The Terms of Service on our website describes the contract process and the information
that has to be supplied.
I'd appreciate it if anyone interested in directly connecting their subnet
would please correspond directly with me on this and we'll get things worked out.
Thanks!
- Brian