RE: 72/8 friendly reminder

[Randy Bush <randy () psg com>]

> > > a bit more coffee made me realize that what might best occur would
> > > be for the rir, some weeks BEFORE assigning from a new block issued
> > > by the iana, put up a pingable for that space and announce it on
> > > the lists so we can all test BEFORE someone uses space from that
> > > block.
> >
> > So, it's probably a multifaceted problem:
> > 1) acls (router)
> > 2) firewalls (host)
> > 3) route acceptance (routers)
> >
> > Some can be audited 'easily' some are 'set and forget' (or forgot :( )
> >
> > Ping might just be dropped to destinations, before any idea 
> > of 'ip space'
> > filters (think www.sun.com filters). You really have to test with the
> > protocols your main user base might be using (http/https).
>
> I believe this would have to be an RIR policy, though. ARIN is 
> holding an open mic to present a few blurbs on potential 
> policy at the Orlando meeting. It might be an idea for some
> operators to hook up at the meeting prior to the open mic and
> talk more. It's too late to make a proposal for this upcoming
> meeting, but not the next one. 
>
> And that's a joint NANOG/ARIN meeting, IIRC.

<sigh>

this is not the ivtf.  let's not see how complex we can make things.
please remember yagni.  let's see how SIMPLY this can be to get 80%
of the effect for 10% of the effort and hardware sales.

randy