Re: Centurylink having a bad morning?

2020-09-05 Thread Mike Hammett via NANOG
The more diversified your peering, the better you are. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Mark Tinka" To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2020 1:35:46 PM Sub

Re: Centurylink having a bad morning?

2020-09-05 Thread Mike Hammett via NANOG
I find it most useful as a warning beacon. If anyone is talking about how they are or want "Tier 1", then I need to back away slowly. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Mark

Consolidation of Email Platforms Bad for Email?

2020-09-07 Thread Mike Hammett via NANOG
I originally asked on mailops, but here is a much wider net and I suspect there's a lot of overlap in interest. I had read an article one time, somewhere about the ongoing consolidation of e-mail into a handful of providers was bad for the Internet as a whole. It was some time ago and thus,

Re: BGP Community - AS0 is de-facto "no-export-to" marker - Any ASN reserved to "export-only-to"?'

2020-09-08 Thread Mike Hammett via NANOG
How I see the OP's intent is to create a BCP of what defined communities have what effect instead of everyone just making up whatever they draw out of a hat, simplifying this process for everyone. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http:

Re: BGP Community - AS0 is de-facto "no-export-to" marker - Any ASN reserved to "export-only-to"?'

2020-09-08 Thread Mike Hammett via NANOG
Is there more desire to be flexible because people are snowflakes and their idea is the only way it should be or real, document-able reasons? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - Fro

Re: BGP Community - AS0 is de-facto "no-export-to" marker - Any ASN reserved to "export-only-to"?'

2020-09-08 Thread Mike Hammett via NANOG
The operators are snowflakes. Are the networks really snowflakes? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Tom Beecher" To: "Mike Hammett" Cc: "NANOG" , "Douglas Fischer" Sen

Re: BGP Community - AS0 is de-facto "no-export-to" marker - Any ASN reserved to "export-only-to"?'

2020-09-08 Thread Mike Hammett via NANOG
riginal Message ----- From: "Mike Hammett via NANOG" To: "Tom Beecher" Cc: "NANOG" Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 5:56:22 PM Subject: Re: BGP Community - AS0 is de-facto "no-export-to" marker - Any ASN reserved to "export-only-to"?

Re: BGP Community - AS0 is de-facto "no-export-to" marker - Any ASN reserved to "export-only-to"?'

2020-09-09 Thread Mike Hammett via NANOG
mber 8, 2020 11:26:43 PM Subject: Re: BGP Community - AS0 is de-facto "no-export-to" marker - Any ASN reserved to "export-only-to"?' On 8/Sep/20 20:35, Mike Hammett via NANOG wrote: How I see the OP's intent is to create a BCP of what defined communities have

Re: BGP Community - AS0 is de-facto "no-export-to" marker - Any ASN reserved to "export-only-to"?'

2020-09-09 Thread Mike Hammett via NANOG
How is that any different than any other network with minimal connectivity (say a non-ISP such as a school, medium business, local government, etc.)? Also, it would likely help that new ISP in Myanmar learn their limited upstream's communities if there were a standard. - Mike Hammett

Re: BGP Community - AS0 is de-facto "no-export-to" marker - Any ASN reserved to "export-only-to"?'

2020-09-09 Thread Mike Hammett via NANOG
Exactly. There are far more pressing things when launching a new network than coming up with a BGP community scheme from scratch, learning everyone else's BGP community scheme, etc. If networks used a standard, then there is a very minimal ramp-up. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing

Re: BGP Community - AS0 is de-facto "no-export-to" marker - Any ASN reserved to "export-only-to"?'

2020-09-09 Thread Mike Hammett via NANOG
More operators don't use communities internally than the number of operators that do. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Mark Tinka" To: "Mike Hammett" Cc: nanog@nanog.o

Re: BGP Community - AS0 is de-facto "no-export-to" marker - Any ASN reserved to "export-only-to"?'

2020-09-09 Thread Mike Hammett via NANOG
If history has taught us anything, everything we do will be ignored by those that most need it. :-) - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Mark Tinka" To: "Mike Hammett" Cc:

Re: BGP Community - AS0 is de-facto "no-export-to" marker - Any ASN reserved to "export-only-to"?'

2020-09-09 Thread Mike Hammett via NANOG
No, but most network operators also aren't NANOG members, attend NANOG shows, subscribe to NANOG lists. They're small outfits where there's between 1 - 5 total networking people. Circling back to earlier where I said there are almost 70k ASNs in use on the public Internet. Most of those ope

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-05-28 Thread Mike Hammett via NANOG
Most households have no practical use for more than 25 megs. More is better, but let's not just throw money into a fire because of a marketing machine. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message

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2015-05-07 Thread Mike Hammett via NANOG
--- Begin Message --- I've seen the same over here and also considered it weird. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: "Paul Ferguson via NANOG" To: "NANOG" Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2015 8:56:44 PM --- End Message