On the other hand..... It has been clear over the past (years?..... time sure flies....) there has been a strong and very vocal pro-filtering Keep the Routing Table Small at *any* cost, group of advocates and protagonists in the NANOG mailing list. It is easy to reach the conjecture that the _perception_ of *others* is; having many strong and vocal pro-filtering protagonists in NANOG; and given the fact that the few who warned that selective route filtering was very problematic were flamed-broiled and none came to their defense \Metaphor .........................after all, if a town in the days of the Salem witch trials watched as the zealots burned the heretics, is the town without blood on their hands just because they remained silent in their comfy homes? \EndMetaphor It is not a strong leap of the imagination to believe that NANOG, the vocal majority, supports selective route-filtering to control routing table growth and was very aggressive to oppress the those whom dared to stand alone and challenge there will. Please keep in mind that as in *any* group, NANOG included, by virture of allowing a few dominate voices to represent the group, does bear responsibility for the perception others view the group. Best Regards, Tim
After scanning the on-line notes from the NANOG meetings, I did not find any "recommendations" made by the group. In fact, the group has mentioned many times that it is inappropriate to set policy. What the group does is discuss various technical problems, share work-arounds, fixes, kludges, and as individuals adopt what is useful. --Elise
Sean Donelan writes:
What is NANOG's role?
I was surprised to read in the March 25 issue of NetworkWorld Alecia Cooper at Sprint comments that Sprint is just following NANOG's recommendations to block addresses to minimize the number of router table entries. I must have missed something, because I don't remember NANOG ever making any recommendation, of any sort.
Is this just a case of bad reporting by Joanie Wexler at NetworkWorld? A bad case of passing the buck by Alecia Cooper at Sprint? Or something else? -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation