Most of which are bunk if you and your upstream have appropriate filters. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Töma Gavrichenkov" <ximaera@gmail.com> To: "Dimeji Fayomi" <oof1@students.waikato.ac.nz> Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 8:30:37 AM Subject: Re: Performance metrics used in commercial BGP route optimizers On Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 4:11 PM Dimeji Fayomi < oof1@students.waikato.ac.nz > wrote: I'm doing a research on BGP route optimisation and the performance metrics used by commercial route optimizer appliances to select better path to a prefix. You may have discovered that already during your research, but just in case: basically, using those optimizers at full throttle is a bad practice and is generally discouraged. A research into the deep-juju of BGP optimization is roughly equivalent to a research about how alcohol may make you a faster driver. I.e. it's fine in academy but you certainly may want to emphasize security considerations in your paper. -- Töma <blockquote> </blockquote>