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At 10:50 AM 2/25/97 -0500, Paul Ferguson wrote: >Well, without naming names, the prefix-length based filtering is >done on non-customer routes. A byproduct of this is it grudgingly >encourages aggregation. Well, yes, but now that multiple providers are doing this the fact that they are non-customer filters affects anyone who is not a customer of BOTH providers, thus further encouraging people to aggregate. I would not mind seeing these filters become more prevalent, making it unreasonable for people to become customers of everyone who filters to get around the filters. Renumbering is NOT that hard folks, and it DOES help. Justin Newton Network Architect Erol's Internet Services ISP/C Director at Large - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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