On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 3:33 PM Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> wrote:

More like do whatever you want in your own house as long as you don't infringe upon others.

That's where the rub is; when using "BGP optimisers" to influence public Internet routing, you cannot guarantee you won't infringe upon others.

 

The argument against route optimizers (assuming appropriate ingress\egress filters) is a religious one and should be treated as such.

There is a difference between BGP optimizers and route optimizers.  When was the last time you heard a complain about Akamai screwing up the global routing table over the past 12 years:

https://www.akamai.com/us/en/about/news/press/2007-press/akamai-introduces-advanced-communications-protocol-for-accelerating-dynamic-applications.jsp

https://developer.akamai.com/legacy/learn/Optimization/SureRoute.html

-Hank