[78429] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Heads up: Long AS-sets announced in the next few days
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Schwartz)
Thu Mar 3 20:21:35 2005
From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
To: "Niels Bakker" <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 17:21:03 -0800
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> The RFC also says:
>
> > An AS_SET implies that the destinations listed in the NLRI can be
> > reached through paths that traverse at least some of the
> > constituent autonomous systems.
>
> which is exactly what we are doing.
Yes, you can cite sections of the RFC that you don't violate. That doesn't
change a single thing about the sections you *do* violate. Nobody is arguing
that you violate every single paragraph of the RFC.
DS