[AusNOG] Report on 1/8 traffic

[Matthew Moyle-Croft]

On 08/04/2010, at 2:20 PM, Terry Manderson wrote:

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>> Unless the allocations are being made and added to the route table, and subsequently real world complaints being raised with carriers who are doing the wrong thing the problem wont go away regardless of how much noise the local RIR is making.
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> I think that is part of it, yes. The question that nags me is, is the effort/time (and subsequent $'s) invested by a company to 'make good' a prefix by some complaint process marry up with the results?
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> Is anyone aware of a case study released by any business that has been through this?

We've been through this a number of times.   I'm sure most ISPs who have recent (last few years) allocations from APNIC will have too.

To be honest the carriers/isps are less of an issue - few of those want to actively get in the way of a customer packet.  Most of the issues are related to content.   Especially Banks.  Especially Banks with outsourced IT.   People who don't really grok da InterWebZ and this CIDR rubbish and are too paranoid to change anything.

MMC