16 Jul
2019
16 Jul
'19
2:35 p.m.
Peace, On Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 9:24 PM Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> wrote:
BGP optimizers only harm the global Internet when route filters don't do their job. (Un)Fortunately, many other things also harm the global Internet when route filters don't do their job.
That is correct; however, there are potentially harmful things that cannot easily be avoided (so we accept the risk), and optimizers are not among those. E.g. there are quite a number of things which could cause an airplane to crash yet are still allowed onboard; but this alone isn't an argument convincing enough to allow handguns there. -- Töma