Clarification on APNIC-063
Hi,
Spotted this section, which is relevant for confederations.
My questions are:
1. The confederation members are granted portable space, aren't they?
Is it correct that each confederation member will get space aligned
on /19 boundaries to meet today's portability requirements?
2. What if a given ISP has a reason to have 2 or more independent
allocations? For example, it needs 2 independent /19 networks
that will have distinct routing policies, say, over different
upstream links. But, it does not want to use provider-assigned
space since in case of line failure, it wants to switch routing
over to the other line.
Can it treat itself as 2 ISPs and have two memberships in the
confederation in order to achieve this?
3. What is the block reserved for portable assignments? 202/7?
Thanks in advance!
5.1 Confederations and Address Assignments
APNIC strongly recommends against the assignment of addresses to
non-ISP organizations. Assignment of such address space must, by
definition, be portable, thus routing entries must be created globally
if that address space is to be routed on the Internet. As Internet
service providers are taking steps to limit the number of prefixes
entered into their routing tables, it is possible that any portable
address space assigned by a confederation will get filtered out of
specific Internet service providers' routers.
APNIC encourages all confederations to forward any portable assignment
requests to APNIC. APNIC will allocate such requests from a block
reserved for portable assignments. As with all portable assignments,
APNIC will explicitly state that routability of the assigned addresses
is no way insured and that the organization should obtain addresses
from their provider if at all possible.
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