We've reached the first milestone in the MICE renumbering project. By now, all peering email contacts have recieved notice of the new IP addresses, and a timeline and request to have the new IP address setup as a secondary on their MICE facing interface by today, 10/1/2012. The timeline also stated that members can now start to schedule their maintenance windows to shift around their BGP announcements so they can announce their prefixes with a next-hop IP in the new IP range. Unfortunately, doing spot checks only about 22% of members seem to have done the secondary IPv4 setup yet based on ping results. If you have not yet put your new IP addresses on a secondary IP on your interface, please do this as-soon-as-possible. If you do not, and another member does shift their prefix announcement, your network will have reachability issues to the other member, trying to get to an IP address your router doesn't know how to reach. Again, here is the cutover schedule that was emailed out: Addition of Address Secondary: before 10/1/2012 New Prefix Announcements: after 10/1/2012 Final use of old IP address next-hop: before 11/30/2012 Removal of old IP address range: after 12/1/2012 Project End: 12/31/2012 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the MICE-ANNOUNCE list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(MICE-ANNOUNCE,SIGNOFF);