[2973] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Worldly Thoughts - Regionalizing Peering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Siegel)
Thu May 23 23:00:06 1996
From: Dave Siegel <dsiegel@rtd.com>
To: alan@gi.net (Alan Hannan)
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 19:58:08 -0700 (MST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199605120024.TAA10593@westie.gi.net> from "Alan Hannan" at May 11, 96 07:24:03 pm
> Drawback: It is technically challenging to create an automate
> system to regionalize and create appropriate filter lists.
I always did enjoy a challenge.
It's really pretty trivial up on the whiteboard. My model includes BGP
confederations to define regions. In the absence of enough IP Addresses to
divide your allocations by confederate AS, I am fairly sure the use of
communities could be used to hack the distribution of more specifics into
conforming the way you want.
This is all from memory. I haven't revisted this model much since I
developed my first one late last year. Maybe they're some new knobs which
make it even easier.
Dave
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