[sig-dns]George's #2: Escalation of reports

[Edward Lewis <edlewis@arin.net>]

At 8:55 +1000 5/2/03, George Michaelson wrote:
> Secondly, a process for APNIC staff to escalate reports on these tests, which
> include specific time periods, to lead to a deadline for de-listing. This
> process is very likely to reflect ARIN processes. This part of the proposal is
> likely to be more APNIC specific than the first part. The process for
> communication and escalation is separated from the definition of 
> lameness tests
> to permit process-centric changes to be made independently.
The ARIN policy specifies that once we determine that there is lameness we:

  first contact POC's for the network via email
  failing that, contact the POC's for the AS originating routes for the prefix
  failing that, call POC's
  failing that, send postal mail

In our region we have a lot of interaction between the registrants 
and the registry.  This includes phone calls, as the region has a 
dominate language and is fairly constrained in time zones.  This 
interaction is handled by the registration staff.  Engineering is 
conducting the testing, has produced the tools and has given training 
to the Registration staff.

Not having travelled widely in Asia myself, I would be hard pressed 
to recommend a process for APNIC.  Also, the division of labor we use 
may not be desirable elsewhere.

I can expand on the second contact point though. In our database, 
organizations have network registrations and AS number registrations. 
It is tempting to think that the networks registered are originated 
in the AS numbers we see.  However, this is not the case - it is up 
to our operation community to configure routing of what they work 
with.  To perform the correlation, we rely on examinations of the BGP 
routing tables we can see into.
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