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