At 09:49 AM 6/11/96 -0400, you wrote:
I went to NANOG meeting in Wash. DC a couple of weeks ago . It didn't specifically address these issues , but there was a presentation with following in-depth :) class on peering with RS at MAEs/NAPs.Also lots of interesting stuff were delivered by Merit ppl ( such as BGP peering stats etc). The whole thing in general was very useful.
Rashid
I am still somewhat curious as to why exactly withdrawls are sent out for routes that aren't announced. I know its according to spec, but /why/ is it speced that way. It seems to me that the spec states that you should withdraw routes which you do not announce then we may want to base route instability only on the number of announcements you send and /not/ on the number of withdrawls (as you are not creating instability by announcing withdrawls which are passed on to you, only redistributing it). In my somewhat less than humble opinion having a large number of withdrawls, but not a large number of announcements only means that you are exceedingly well connected and are hearing routes from just about everyone and are therefore are passing on all of their routing instabilities. Justin "I hope that was coherent" Newton Justin Newton Internet Architect Erol's Internet Services