North American Network Operators Group
Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical

Re: RIPE "Golden Networks" Document ID - 229/210/178

  • From: Petri Helenius
  • Date: Sat Sep 04 16:29:49 2004

Bill Woodcock wrote:

     On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
   > the logic seems rather irrefutable:
   > - as a rule, shorter prefixes are more important and/or more stable
   > than long ones
   > - so we dampen long prefixes more aggressively
   > - the root DNS servers tend to live in long prefixes
   > - so we exclude the root DNS prefixes

What about the ccTLD prefixes?  There are a lot more of them.  And the
gTLDs?  And exchange points?  And Microsoft Update servers?  Where do you
stop?



Pay me to treat your prefixes more nicely? 1/2 :-)

Pete