Re: [apops] Re: [Oz-ISP] Telstra Community support

["Phillip Grasso-Nguyen" <grasso@magna.com.au>]

> I'm not actually aware of any transit ASN anywhere that will propagate
> communities set by customers to peers, other customers or upstream ASes.
> I'm sure there are some, but none of the networks I have worked with
> will do this.
e.g.
Open transit, global one,ATT, Concert,sprint
> What are you trying to achieve?
by providers being able to pass communites, remote policy can be changed,
e.g
check out open transits policies,
Extract from whois -h whois.ra.bet AS5511
               Community Definition
               ------------------------------------------------------
               5511:1000  Do not announce to US peers
               5511:1001  Prepend 5511 when announcing to US peers
               5511:1002  Prepend 5511 5511 when announcing to US peers
               5511:1101  Do not announce to Sprintlink/AS1239
               5511:1102  Do not announce to ICM/AS1800
               5511:1201  Prepend 5511 when announcing to Sprintlink
               5511:1202  Prepend 5511 when announcing to ICM
               5511:1301  Prepend 5511 5511 when announcing to Sprintlink
               5511:1302  Prepend 5511 5511 when announcing to ICM
               5511:1401 Do not announce to Sprint on Relay
               5511:2000  Do not announce to european peers
               5511:2001  Prepend 5511 when announcing to european peers
               5511:2002  Prepend 5511 5511 to european peers
               5511:2101  Do not announce to Global One/AS4000
               5511:2102  Do not announce to Ebone/AS1755
               5511:2201  Prepend 5511 when announcing to Global One
               5511:2202  Prepend 5511 when announcing to Ebone
               5511:2301  Prepend 5511 5511 when announcing to Global One
               5511:2302  Prepend 5511 5511 when announcing to Ebone
               5511:3000 Do not announce to asia/pacific peers
               5511:4000  Do not announce to other peers

endless possiblities.
means that service providers don't have to break cidr to control their
inbound policies, also gives end providers a choice how their networks get
routed, specially if some providers want to route around bottleneaks etc.

Regards
    Phillip.
>
>
> Joe
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