On Wednesday, September 11, 2002, at 09:04 PM, Arron Scott wrote:
The reason I mentioned this ... non-RFC compliant idea in the first place, was the number of comments I get from customers who state that the cost and ease of obtaining the AS number is not as Joe says "trivial". It costs a fair bit of money and takes a fair bit of time.
I ordered an ASN for a project I'm working on, just the other day. I asked my transit provider in NZ, who is an APNIC member, to put the application in to APNIC. It took two e-mails, four working days, and zero dollars.
Thanks for everyone's input, the question I am left with is ... if customer X designing their network with our Routers asks me how to multihome to 2 ISPs, do I say go and talk to APNIC first or forget it, or do I say, the ISPs have jointly agreed on a method of using Private AS numbers, go and talk to them about how it's done ?
The "RFC1930-bending" is a solution looking for a problem. Joe - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog