[7953] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Big Squeeze
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Mon Mar 3 00:36:43 1997
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 00:28:10 -0500
To: Scott Huddle <huddle@mci.net>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: Craig Nordin <cnordin@vni.net>, nanog@merit.edu, piara@apnic.net
At 04:03 PM 3/2/97 -0600, Scott Huddle wrote:
>
>I'll assert that if the costs of accepting a route announcement are
>non-zero that this can only happen if there is a market for
>announcements and a system of settlements between providers.
>
>If the costs are zero, then why have the filters?
>
I'd suggest that costs are non-zero, and they cannot be quantified
by dollars, at least today. Since the majority of instability in
the global Internet is originated by prefixes longer than /19's,
the amount of resources consumed is an exercise left for the reader.
- paul
