AS199518

AS199518 is a research/education network with a bent towards giving back managed by Gregory Shapiro. We currently sponsor or contribute to RIPE Atlas, GlobalPing, NLNOG RING, Measuring Broadband America/ SamKnows, and mtr.tools. We also send BGP feeds to bgp.tools, NLNOG, and the University of Oregon RouteViews Project. If you are aware of other projects, please reach out.

Peering Policy

• Peers must maintain a publicly routable ASN.
• Peers must only send traffic from their own and downstream networks to us.
• Peers must Only send us traffic destined for the routes we announce.
• Peers must operate a Network Operations Center (NOC) reachable by email.
• Peers must keep their IRR and registry data up to date at all times.
• Peers must have a complete and current PeeringDB.
• Peers shall enforce a strict routing policy to avoid route leaks.
• Peers shall aggregate their routes to avoid routing table inflation.
• Peers shall only export their own and downstream network routes to us.
• Peers are encouraged to employ RPKI signing of their routes.
• Prefixes with private or other invalid ASNs in AS_PATH will be filtered.
• Prefixes pointing to well-known bogon addresses will be filtered.
• Prefixes shorter than a /24 (IPv4) or /64 (IPv6) will be filtered.
• Prefixes with invalid RPKI status will be filtered.
• AS paths longer than 100 entries will be filtered.
• We support usage of the GRACEFUL_SHUTDOWN community.
• As an Educational/Research network, there may be instability due to experimentation.
• No guarantees are provided for availability or correctness; peer at your own risk.
• Problematic or abusive peers will be disabled/removed immediately.
• Policy and peering availability is subject to change without notice.

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