[46446] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Route filters, IRRs, and route objects
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Prior)
Fri Mar 29 00:11:03 2002
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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 15:39:40 +1030
To: Przemyslaw Karwasiecki <karwas@ifxcorp.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Mark Prior <mrp@mrp.net>
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At 1:48 PM -0500 27/3/02, Przemyslaw Karwasiecki wrote:
>Why it is required by some providers to generate explicit,
>exact route objects, in order to allow routes through
>their filters?
>
I worked on the assumption that the customer would think about what
they were doing if they had to register them all. It didn't stop
people doing it but I think it generated more discussion on what they
really wanted to achieve than if we just allowed it automagically.
Mark.
