[26058] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verio Decides what parts of the internet to drop
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Fri Dec 3 03:12:56 1999
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Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 00:04:07 -0800
From: Tony Li <tony1@home.net>
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Cc: 'Alex Rubenstein' <alex@nac.net>,
'Randy Bush' <rbush@bainbridge.verio.net>, doug@safeport.com,
nanog@merit.edu
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> It's a PITA and not the cleanest of methods, but until all the backbones
> quit filtering /24s it's what we have to do. The other alternative (and
> we've considered it) is to obtain a much larger space directly from ARIN and
> burn the unused space. Then we could remove the last bit of static routing
> and use BGP4 as we should.
Wouldn't it be nice if backbones got around to simply charging for annoucements
and quit this arbitrary filtering?
Tony
