[43008] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verio Peering Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Thu Sep 27 19:34:58 2001
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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To: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 16:31:34 -0700
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> I don't think anyone has ever claimed (Randy included)
> that filtering out long prefixes never hurts performance /to
> those long prefixes/. Just that the usage of those long
> prefixes is small, the effect is often small, and the NET
> effect (i.e. on performance to all prefixes) is often improved,
> AND the 'public good' effect, in terms of encouraging
> CIDR and discouraging disaggregation has benefits for
> the global routing table, for everybody, in terms of
> reduction of cost (nice statistical demonstration at
> last IETF Ptomaine session - please refer to 'belling
> the cat' problem).
>
> Are you going to present statistical data to the contrary?
<http://psg.com/~rand/010809.ptomaine.pdf>
randy
