[as112-ops] LOA Request for AS112 Prefixes

[Grant Taylor]

On 11/02/2018 10:46 AM, Frank Habicht wrote:
> But [noting there are enough other instances in the world] why would I 
> want to tell my upstream: here, all your other customers, your peers, 
> everyone, from the other side of the globe, send that traffic to me, 
> I pay for it, <sarcasm>and when it's from the other side of the globe 
> we'll together make sure it takes as long as possible</sarcasm>.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Maybe operators should treat these widely anycasted prefixes as "golden" 
> and give same preference whether received from customer or peering. But 
> I think we're not there - and their network, their rules.

Would it be worth while to originate the AS112 prefixes to all peers 
willing to accept it with the don't (re)export attribute?  That way 
directly connected peers (that accept the advertisement) will benefit. 
But people further away won't be drawn towards your AS112 instance?

#thinkingOutLoud

> Am I missing something?

I think you ask a valid question.  Something that AS112 operators should 
contemplate.



-- 
Grant. . . .
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