North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations
On Sat, 27 Jan 1996, Vadim Antonov wrote: > You may want to ask Sean to send you a copy of SL-MAE-E's configuration. > There already are *huge* filter lists, just to maintain sanity of > routing. That would be quite informative, actually. I might just drop him a note, if he has time to read it with all of this stuff going on her in cidrd and nanog. > >I doubt you're going to need to add many filters :) > > Heh. Never underestimate the laziness (overworkiness, underpaidness, > or just plain cluelessness) of netadmins. True, and of course it wouldn't be their fault that they ignored the message. But it would make for some interesting stories... > It is not the tools, it is the politics. Getting rid of nukes > completely is a nice goal. Does anybody seriously think it can > be done today? Not until we see the last of Kings and Presidents > (not mentioning Senators and other Servants of the people). > > A net.politzai is a very unrewarding role, potentially leading > to real lawsuits. Passive filtering with well-announced policy > at least gives no food for lawyers. Sprint's policies are > a result of extensive consultations between engineering, marketing > and legal people (and activist customers), and is a way for Sprint > to protect its own network from the routing collapse. I'm starting to understand a few more of the underlying issues here. It's not just a "balance the allocations vs the table size and figure out how to deal with the people who announce a /18 as 64 /24's..." issue. It's how to do the above and not get sued or otherwise trampled on... Thanks,-forrest
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