Re: Description of Inter-AS Networks in the RIPE Routing Registry

Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net> writes:

Does this mean that if ANS or Merit announces the FixW FDDI, Barrnet and NASA can't add a pair of routers only peering with each other on the ring?

No! Any peering across the inter-AS network ispossible. It means that the ripe-81 model can only describe one AS announcng the inter-AS network *itself* to twhe world. ripe-81 allows only one originating AS (in bgp terms) per net.

Alternet and PSI at College Park are are another example, but I'm not sure who would "own" that network. (no side discussions on this please - redirect to alt.bizarre.politics.gix or /dev/null :).

Ownership is not an issue of the routing registry. Daniel