On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 11:19:34PM +0100, Marc, LX1DUC wrote:
- - Can there be more than 1 coordinator for one
single area (e.g. 2 OMs
handling a country conjointly)?
There can be. Usually they agree to split things up geographically or
in some other logical manner.
I prefer people to work together so that there is no ambiguity as to
who to contact for help or allocation services.
- - Do the former tunnels still exist for delegations
which haven't been
moved/migrated to the new portal? (Or are they offline from the
Internet side of things?)
The portal does not list delegations for areas that do not have a
coordinator as there is no obvious person to contact for allocation
services. Generally I handle requests from those areas.
Tunnel gateways may exist for areas which currently don't have a coordinator.
- - The new system/portal seems to favor a mesh
network of tunnels, are
intra-country tunnels (no directly connected to the AMPR gateway but
connected via a local gateway (which in turn is connected to the AMPR
gateway)) depreciated or unrecommended?
Tunnels do not have to connect to the AMPR gateway. People are free
to set them up this way if they wish. Sweden plans to provide
tunnel facilities from its own gateway system, for example.
- - When I checked a few years ago, very very few
networks within
44.0.0.0/8 were announced in the DFZ (like 1 or 2), this seems to have
increased. Is it recommended today to announce a delegation or parts
of it directly?
Direct BGP announcements of CIDR blocks are permitted with special
permission. Generally, these are for technically sophisticated projects.
There are currently a few blocks being announced this way. There are
over two hundred tunnel gateways listed. People may find it easier to
set up a tunnel gateway with their smaller networking facilities.
- Brian