On 21 Jun 2004, at 07:21, Andy Linton wrote:
When you're announcing to the list that you are making changes to your BGP announcements it would help if people would:
1) State which AS these announcements are coming from. This helps me double check I'm making changes to the right route objects.
2) State which routers the BGP sessions are on. This helps me double check I'm making changes to the right route objects.
Another idea is for people to register their own route objects, and maintain their own aut-num object in the Citylink route registry. Or the APNIC registry, or the RADB, or somewhere. I'm not particularly convinced that making ad-hoc announcements to this list is really the best way of doing things. Sending mail directly to the contact at a peer and following up if you don't get a reply is surely a better plan (plus, you get to find out when the contact for a peer changes). How many people religiously follow up on every single route filter update message sent to this list? I bet the answer is not "everybody". Joe