Subj : RE: ERRORS in Route List!
To   : Robert Couture
From : Andrea Santos
Date : Thu May 10 2001 09:20 am

On May 09, 2001 11:42pm, ROBERT COUTURE wrote to ANDREA SANTOS:

 AS|>> I dare say you do by discontinuing to determine where a prospective
 AS|>> node should be listed geographically and taking it upon yourself to do
 AS|>> the honors.

 RC> Tell me ... what should it matter in an ION system?

Doesn't matter if the system is POTS or ION.  Every Region in Zone 1 is
capable of listing an ION.  I believe every Region also has at least several
NCs who are capable of same.  Policy 4 outlines the procedures to follow for
nodelisting out of area nodes and why it's done.

There was a period of time when not all Regions had ION capability which is the
reason why we have the IP section of the Nodelist which is EXCLUSIVELY for ION
listings.  Between this nodelist section and every Region being ION capable
there is NO need for any node to have to seek a listing outside of their
geographic region.  If their preference is the ION section, that's
understandable as well.

 RC> "geographically locating" nodes.  In an ION system, geography has
 RC> little to do with it.  We took initiative and did something about
 RC> providing resources for ION's to join.

The initiative was started well before your Region got into the act.  Now, if
the nodes in question actually attempted to contact *Cs in their geographic
regions and couldn't get listed, I wouldn't have an objection to an out of area
listing.  But there are definitely listings in the 229 segment where that
doesn't apply and the *C simply went and listed them.

If I were "jealous," I wouldn't have referred the many nodes I have to other
Nets and Regions and "kept" them for Net 135 and Region 18.
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