[10501] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Flawed logic?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Sun Jul 6 23:02:01 1997
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 1997 22:46:07 -0400
To: Larry Vaden <vaden@texoma.net>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: pagan@apnic.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970706153551.015929e0@texoma.net>
At 03:35 PM 07/06/97 -0500, Larry Vaden wrote:
>
>Paul seems to be saying there is the possibility of a market solution to
>"the routers will fall over" problem.
>
No, I'm saying that its feasible to economically incentivize an
upstream AS to route a longer prefix than they may otherwise
block.
It has nothing to do with a router problem.
Please refrain from wild interpretations -- I believe my posts
are straightforward enough on their face.
- paul