[as112-ops] LOA Request for AS112 Prefixes

[Joe Abley]

Hujambo rafiki!

On Nov 2, 2018, at 12:46, Frank Habicht <geier at geier.ne.tz> wrote:

> Of course: many good things have come from volunteering things. But here
> one is also opening the possibility for making flows less efficient, if
> say your upstream now gets AS112 from one or many peerings, and after
> this change they get and prefer it from you (customer) and then send
> traffic from around the world to you...
>
> I just believe AS112 packets shouldn't travel far.

I agree with you, but for the service to be globally available
*someone* needs to provide transit for the service addresses.

In the past I have used AS112 as a test tenant on new anycast
infrastructure in order to do end-to-end testing. It's a service with
live traffic and no reasonable end-user expectations, so it's kind of
perfect for that.

Whether you or I think that these routes *should* be advertised for
transit, I think it would be unreasonable to insist that they should
not.


Joe