Heads up: Long AS-sets announced in the next few days

Please exclude AS8220.

Regards,
Neil. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On 
> Behalf Of Lorenzo Colitti
> Sent: 02 March 2005 19:35
> To: James A. T. Rice
> Cc: Gert Doering; nanog at merit.edu; routing-wg at ripe.net; 
> ris-users at ripe.net; compunet at dia.uniroma3.it
> Subject: Re: Heads up: Long AS-sets announced in the next few days
> 
> 
> James A. T. Rice wrote:
> > This seems to suggest that you are just picking ASns at random to 
> > inject into the paths, and that you don't have a set of ASs 
> which you 
> > have the assignees permission to use.
> > 
> > In which case please keep AS8330, AS8550, and AS8943 out of your 
> > experiments too.
> > 
> > Using not yet allocated ASns out of RIPEs asn-blocks would 
> have been 
> > more sensible, IMHO.
> 
> James,
> 
> we are not picking ASes at random. The AS-set announcements 
> are part of new techniques we are developing for ISPs who 
> wish to discover how their prefixes are seen by the rest of 
> the Internet. We believe this will come to be a useful tool 
> for operators.
> 
> However, since this is still work in progress, and in 
> scientific research there is no room for second place, I 
> can't really reveal any more than that at the moment.
> 
> I would like to point out, though, that our research group 
> does have a proven track record in the field network 
> discovery (examples available on request), and has created 
> software useful to the operator community such as BGPlay [1][2].
> 
> That said, if you want us to exclude those ASes from our 
> AS-sets, then we will do so.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Lorenzo
> 
> [1] http://www.ris.ripe.net/bgplay/
> [2] http://bgplay.routeviews.org/bgplay/
>