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At 08:32 AM 8/27/97 +0900, David R. Conrad wrote: >[Apologies for an (almost technical) post from outside NA to NANOG] > >Hi, > >>Should we continue to poke holes in our filters to let Sprint's customer's >>customer routes through, or should we keep trying to explain to the Sprint >>NOC why their customer's customers could use shorter prefix length >>announcements? > >I suppose it depends on what slope you want the graph at >http://www.iepg.org/ops/bgptable.html to have. Regardless of whether >the filters are a "good idea" or not, they do tend to limit routing >table growth and its implications, if for no other reason than smaller >sites are "encouraged" to go to their providers for address space due >to fear of being filtered. No argument there, but what about more consistency in filtering which *might* lead to more predictability in routing behavior? Given, diversity in address assignment (as well as policy) serves as a cause the variation in filtering policy. - donner > >Regards, >-drc > >
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