[73818] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RIPE "Golden Networks" Document ID - 229/210/178
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Sat Sep 4 16:28:10 2004
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 23:27:23 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
Cc: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>,
Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0409041235510.16664-100000@paixhost.pch.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Bill Woodcock wrote:
> 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?
>
>
>
Pay me to treat your prefixes more nicely? 1/2 :-)
Pete
