[AfriNIC-rpd] AFPUB-2006-GEN-001 and Anycast

[Owen DeLong]

Reading through the document you liked, your claim appears facially in conflict with the following provision:

> IP Backbone Providers should exchange routing information and traffic between all other Inter-Service Provider IP Backbone nodes. An IP Backbone Provider should be responsible for distributing all Inter-Service Provider BGP-4 information to all its peers. An IP Backbone Provider should advertise its customer networks to peering partners after a Service Provider has fulfilled the security requirements laid down in PRD IR.77 [19]. When operating an IPX network, the above requirements are mandatory. 

(6.5.1 IP Routing, Page 16.

Further, the document is inconsistent with itself in a number of locations.

Thanks for providing it, though. It explains a number of the reasons that cellular still continues to provide such a poor internet user experience.

Owen

On Apr 10, 2012, at 11:34 PM, Graham Beneke wrote:

> On 07/04/2012 10:34, Alan Barrett wrote:
>> What's wrong with the obvious approach? Like this:
>> 
>> 1. get a /18 block.
>> 2. carve out a /24 from inside the /18.
>> 3. announce the /18 to everybody.
>> 4. announce the /24 to only some peers.
>> 
>> Not so obvious:
>> 
>> 5. optionally, tag the /24 with a special community to encourage your
>> peers not to propagate the announcement further. Perhaps no-export
>> would be a reasonable choice.
> 
> There is a specific requirement that the prefix does not appear in the routing table of certain peers and is un-routable from their perspective. Thus it can not appear as part of an aggregate either.
> 
> You can read the details in this GSMA document:
> http://www.gsma.com/documents/ir-34-5-0-inter-service-provider-ip-backbone-guidelines/20211/
> 
> While I understand that their could be other ways to achieve the objectives, a global body has already standardised this across many of our members. Is it not wise to build policies that adequately provide for these requirements?
> 
> -- 
> Graham Beneke
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