[ris-int] [Fwd: request for BGP Beacon]

Hello Henk,

Yes, they wrote to us last week with this beacon request.

>From their e-mail we understood that they wanted to announce themselves
one of the prefixes from the RIS beacons range. This would not be
possible, as it would be against the RIPE assignment policies. So, we
have mentioned to them that they would need to request a prefix from
ARIN for this experiment.

Perhaps we misunderstood and they were asking us to implement a special
beacon config on our side, so they could conduct the experiment. That
should be no problem (if there is enough beacon prefixes left, currently
only one /24).
I will reply and ask them to clarify on this.

Thanks for signalling. :)

Vasco

Henk Uijterwaal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Setting up special beacon configs is something we used to do in the
> past.  Morley's group does good work, so if at all possible, we should
> do this for her.
>
> Henk
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: request for BGP Beacon
> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:35:34 -0400
> From: wingying at umich.edu
> To: henk at ripe.net
> CC: Z. Morley Mao <zmao at eecs.umich.edu>,    Y. Charlie Hu
> <ychu at purdue.edu>, Zheng Zhang <zhang97 at purdue.edu>
>
> Dear Henk,
> We are networking researchers in the University of Michigan and Purdue
> University. We are interested in doing experiments to emulate
> IP anycast which requires announcing the RIPE beacon prefix
> at more than one location at any given time.
> Would it be possible that you allow us to perform these experiments
> using one of the RIPE beacon prefixes for a limited time?
> We will certainly provide any software and operational support required
> to carry out these experiments.
> Can you help us set up this experiment testbed?
>
> Thanks very much for your help!
> Best,
> Ying
>
>
>


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