On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Steve E. Powell wrote:
What if the operator had the capability to accept routes based on the ratio of good prefixes to bad prefixes received where a bad prefix is defined as a more specific of a classful network or a
So Provider A announces his ten /15 CIDR blocks to Provider B, aggregating huge numbers of IPs into those ten announcements. He then wishes to announce 20 "bad" prefixes from customers of /21 or longer. Under your plan, that doesn't fly. Why is it that we assume that a "large" provider has to be announcing many routes? -- Tim -------------------------------------------------- * Timothy M. Wolfe, Chief Network Engineer * * ClipperNet Corporation / It's a wireless world * * tim@clipper.net 800.338.2629 x 402 * * Sufficient for today = Inadequate for tomorrow * --------------------------------------------------