[GTER] Heads up: Long AS-sets announced in the next few days

[Raniery Pontes]

Aviso que ocorreu na Nanog.

Não deve ser nada de grave, mas achei adequado repassar, para ficarmos 
com o flag "atenção" ligado. ;)

Abraços

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Heads up: Long AS-sets announced in the next few days
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 19:49:50 +0100
From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo at ripe.net>
To: nanog at merit.edu, routing-wg at ripe.net, ris-users at ripe.net


Hi,

as announced to the RIPE routing working group mailing list [1] and
elsewhere, over the next few days the Computer Networks research group
at Roma Tre University, in collaboration with the RIPE NCC RIS project,
will be performing experiments involving announcements with large
AS-sets in the AS-path. We are doing this to test innovative network
discovery methodologies we developed to allow ISPs to determine how
their prefixes are seen by the rest of the Internet. The announcements
will be for prefixes 84.205.73.0/24 and 84.205.89.0/24 and will
originate in AS12654.

We have been performing similar experiments over IPv6, in collaboration
with the NAMEX internet exchange, since December 2004 with no ill
effects; furthermore, our announcements are standard BGP, so conformant
implementations should be able to process them, and very long AS-sets
have already been observed in the past (e.g. [2], [3]). However, we want
to be careful to avoid router bugs on legacy devices, old firmware
versions and the like, so we are first sending out test announcements
with progressively longer AS-sets. Should you encounter a problem with
these advertisements, please let us know and we will withdraw them.

The proposed timetable of the test announcements is as follows.

2005-03-04:
	14:00 UTC: 10-element AS-set
	14:30 UTC: withdrawal
	16:00 UTC: 25-element AS-set
	16:30 UTC: withdrawal

and, if there are no problems:

2005-03-07:
	14:00 UTC: 50-element AS-set
	14:30 UTC: withdrawal
	16:00 UTC: 100-element AS-set
	16:30 UTC: withdrawal

Note: For reference, the AS-sets already observed in [2] and [3]
contained 123 and 124 ASes respectively.


For questions/comments, please contact compunet at dia.uniroma3.it or
lorenzo at ripe.net.


Regards,
Lorenzo Colitti
On behalf of the Roma Tre Computer Networks Research group

[1]
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/routing-wg/2005/msg00021.html
[2] http://www.ripe.net/projects/ris/Talks/0101_RIPE38_AA/sld003.html
[3] http://www.ripe.net/maillists/ncc-archives/ris-users/2002/msg00044.html