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Re: PI space and colocation

  • From: Patrick W. Gilmore
  • Date: Wed Jan 18 20:28:59 2006 
On Jan 18, 2006, at 6:22 PM, Tony Li wrote:
IMHO, wasting any resource is unfortunate, but the cost of additional forwarding table entries
far outstrips the cost of additional DRAM. Thus, adding an additional prefix does merit
a significant shout from others, but the stub AS should only be an incremental whimper.
It's not just the amount of resources spent, it's what you get for them.

Spending a little on nothing is worse than spending more on something useful.

Personally, I think a prefix which gives routability info is useful. A Stub AS is just a waste.

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TTFN,
patrick

P.S. This also means a /24 with the same AS path as the enclosing /16 is also a waste - an even bigger one.