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Fw: Requested NSF Routing Arbiter database object changes

  • From: "Mike Norris" < >
  • Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 16:53:18 +0100

Here's a brave attempt to clear the swamp, and more ;-)

Mike

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> From: NSF Routing Arbiter Database Maintainer Forwarding
DB-admin@localhost
> To: AS1800@localhost
> Subject: Requested NSF Routing Arbiter database object changes
> Date: 24 April 1998 16:37
> 
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> This is to notify you that some objects in which you are mentioned as
> a maintainer were requested to be changed, but *failed* the proper
> authorisation for any of the mentioned maintainers.
> Please contact the sender of these changes about changes that need
> need to be made to the following objects.
> 
> The mail message causing these failures had the following mail headers:
> 
> - From:    Super-User root@localhost
> - Subject: 
> - Date:    Fri, 24 Apr 1998 18:31:32 +0300 (EET DST)
> - Msg-Id:  <199804241531.SAA04338@localhost
> 
> NSF Routing Arbiter Database Maintainer Forwarding Department
> 
> ---
> DELETION REQUESTED FOR:
> 
> route:       192.0.0.0/2
> descr:       QUARTER-DEFAULT-ONE
> descr:       The Reasonable Default Route Project
> descr:       This prefix is one of three which is designed
> descr:       to accomplish several things.   Firstly, ICM
> descr:       will be offering a set of robust and hardened
> descr:       default-oriented prefixes which will be made
> descr:       reliably available to some of AS1800's peers and
> descr:       things downstream from them.  The routing announcements
> descr:       will be supplemented with a box that sends back
> descr:       appropriate ICMP messages; at some point we will
> descr:       also make a view of the default-announcing box's
> descr:       knowledge of global routing available to folks
> descr:       who wish to accept the default announcement.
> descr:       Secondly, this announcement is designed to assist
> descr:       ANS in the transition away from advisories.  We expect
> descr:       that this will allow people to send in far fewer
> descr:       advisory updates than is done currently, without
> descr:       breaking reachability between ANS's customers and
> descr:       the rest of the world.   This is good for both ANS
> descr:       and everyone else.
> descr:       Thirdly, ICM will be running some experiments on
> descr:       sheer amount of traffic that follows an ultimate
> descr:       default, although this must be done without
> descr:       examining that traffic for content without explicit
> descr:       permission from the originator.  We expect that this
> descr:       will help serve as a tool to identify and correct
> descr:       problems in the global routing system.
> descr:       questions, comments and flames to: smd@localhost,
roll@localhost
> origin:      AS1800
> advisory:    AS690 1:1800 2:1239
> mnt-by:      MAINT-AS1800
> changed:     con@localhost 951012
> source:      RADB




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