Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

[Brian E Carpenter <brian at hursley.ibm.com>]

Sean Doran wrote:
...
>   Are you of the belief that
> as a matter of policy, everyone but "top level" providers will have
> addresses from a "top level" provider, with no exceptions?
> 
> Do you also beleive that for inter-TLA routing information-exchange 
> purposes, with respect to the destination address, ONLY the 13 (to
> 21) TLA (+ RES) bits you mention should ever be considered by a
> router in the core of the global network, except where two
> directly-peering TLAs agree to exchange some NLA information?

This is the plan. We start out with no holes in BGP and we try to
keep it that way.

   Brian