[151210] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Mar 13 18:17:18 2012
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 07:16:20 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net>
In-Reply-To: <5315F5C7-280C-4BA1-83DC-A4CDBE04EAE4@apnic.net>
Cc: NANOG Mailing List <nanog@nanog.org>
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> Yes, the economics of routing are strange, and the lack of any real
> strictures in the routing tables are testament to the observation that
> despite more than two decades of tossing the idea around we've yet to
> find the equivalent of a "route deaggregation tax" or a "route
> advertisement tax" or any other mechanism that effectively turns the
> routing space into a form of market that imposes some economic
> constraints on the activity.
among other things, i suspect that the shadow of telco settlements makes
us shy away from this.
randy