[73817] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RIPE "Golden Networks" Document ID - 229/210/178
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Sat Sep 4 15:42:58 2004
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 12:37:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <A0FC454A-FD2D-11D8-A858-000A95CD987A@muada.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> 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
What about the ccTLD prefixes? There are a lot more of them. And the
gTLDs? And exchange points? And Microsoft Update servers? Where do you
stop?
-Bill
