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On Friday, May 16, 2003, at 20:00 Canada/Eastern, Sean Donelan wrote: Small ISPs with only a few eBGP neighbors (i.e. less than a dozen) andHaving being involved in cleaning up the networks of many small ISPs (by your definition of small) after they have been deployed by people long since departed, I completely disagree with your last sentence. Maybe complexity is in the eye of the beholder, but ISPs which classify the routes they carry according to origin using community string attributes are much easier to debug and understand than those who specify their exit policy using hard-coded prefix and as-path filters all over the place. I don't think "start messy and clean up later" is good advice. Do it right the first time, and grow smoothly without difficult migrations. Joe
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