[73764] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RIPE "Golden Networks" Document ID - 229/210/178
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Thu Sep 2 18:18:01 2004
In-Reply-To: <16695.38805.246472.147084@roam.psg.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 00:15:42 +0200
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 2-sep-04, at 23:58, Randy Bush wrote:
>> If you don't implement ripe-229, why not?
> because the golden address space stuff is stupid
Maybe so, but the logic seems rather irrefutable:
- as a rule, shorter prefixes are more important and/or more stable
than long ones
- so we dampen long prefixes more aggressively
- the root DNS servers tend to live in long prefixes
- so we exclude the root DNS prefixes
But then again, dampening really doesn't buy you much as it only
applies to routes that are flapping beyond the link to the next AS. So
if you have an instable link somewhere, you can't dampen that
instability away yourself.
