[23532] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: route announcement question (political rather than technical)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Weisberg)
Wed Mar 24 14:54:01 1999
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 14:51:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Jeff Weisberg <jaw@Op.Net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
| > in theory, anyone running BGP ought understand the RADB, understand
| > BGP (and routing in general), and be able to spell their own name.
| >
| Some people prefer not to use RADB so as to make their routing
| infrastructure less dependent on non-controllable (administratively)
| outside entities. As a matter of corporate politics.
I didn't say they need to use it, only that they ought understand
it, know what it is, and know how to use it. I make no comment on
what to do with, or whether to use that knowledge. and I certainly
wouldn't advocate depending on the RADB for anything.
I merely advocate non-ignorance.
--jeff
