[185958] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: bad announcement taxonomy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Nov 19 20:51:55 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Arturo Servin <arturo.servin@gmail.com>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
In-reply-to: <CALo9H1bYfZhY_c6OeK_1_Brechm7fL9Q7_as68Gs8ANz9pf_TQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:51:44 -0500
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:24:09 -0800, Arturo Servin said:
> Well, if you take a route, change its origin as your own (or any other) and
> re-announce it (perhaps just a smaller prefix of it) I would assume some
> intent.
>
> Or they are super whoopsies.
AS7007 was a whoopsie. And in fact, I'll go out on a limb and say that
most, if not all, EGP->IGP->EGP re-injections are whoopsies.
Because let's face it, if you had *intent*, you'd just start announcing it.