On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Jon Lewis <jle...@lewis.org> wrote: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Christopher Morrow wrote: > >>> how to detect if there are more instances? >> >> o Should some form of 'scrape routeviews before assignment' happen at >> the RIR? (if you don't like o RV, pick another 2-3 sources of data) >> o How do you make sure each RIR does this act? >> o Should the customer check public data sources before acceptance? >> o Is there a 30 day revoke/return dance for Number Resources? > > Checking "global BGP" only works if the ASN is being announced at that > instant. That ought to be one of the due diligence steps, but so should > checking the various RIR whois servers. Lots of ASNs have been assigned but > aren't visible in the global table. >
sure, pick 2-3 ways to check was my point... I ain't writin' RIR policy in nanog maillist traffic :) I presume also there's some '80% check is good enough' standard that's applied along the way because I doubt you'll ever get 100% certainty in this sort of thing, sadly. -Chris > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jon Lewis | I route > Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are > Atlantic Net | > _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ >
