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Re: soBGP deployment

  • From: Larry J. Blunk
  • Date: Mon May 23 11:28:21 2005 
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 10:11 -0400, Randy Bush wrote:
> > If you look back to the NSFNet days (prior to a decade ago) and
> > the PRDB (Policy Routing Database), you might very well draw a
> > different conclusion.
> 
> indeed, one of utter disaster.  it would take days or weeks
> before one could route a prefix.
> 

   I suspect this was due to the fact that template submissions
were not fully automated at the time and required human
review (disclaimer: I worked for the MichNet side of Merit
back then and was not intimately familiar with PRDB
operations).

 -Larry