[as112-ops] LOA Request for AS112 Prefixes

[Jonathan Stewart]

On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 11:54 AM Frank Habicht <geier at geier.ne.tz> wrote:

> On 02/11/2018 18:40, Matthew Pounsett wrote:
> >> On Nov 2, 2018, at 06:09, Siyuan Miao <aveline at misaka.io> wrote:
>
> >> We're having issues when announce AS112 prefixes to some certain
> >> providers and they ask us LOA for AS112 prefixes.
> >> Would that be possible to issue a LOA for this?
>
You should never issue an LOA for AS112. From whom would any
"authorization" come? If this ISP cannot understand what AS112 is from the
RFC, there's a good chance they won't handle the AS112 prefixes correctly.

- as an IXP, you offer it to all your peers, as value added service that
> doesn't cost you anything
> - as a $provider, you offer it to all your customers, to get have them
> get the negative answers to the useless queries as fast as possible, and
> without "costing" you anything
>
 In my case i just send my $dayjob customers' AS112-destination packets to
the AS112 node our local IX (MBIX.ca).  No need to place an AS112 node in
our own network since there's a very close available instance.

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>.
>
> I just believe AS112 packets shouldn't travel far.
>

I completely agree with you here. As a local AS112 operator, I'm trying to
improve DNS for local ISPs and their customers. People within 500 km. I'm
not trying to help ISPs on other continents fix broken DNS. Remember that
AS112 doesn't receive any packets from well-run recursive resolvers.

Cheers,
Jonathan
[Operating AS112 in Winnipeg, CA]


>
>
> Thanks,
> Frank
> [operating AS112 in TZ]
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     Jonathan
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