| The "BGP uninformed" ask, "Why can't traffic just choose one of | two paths? The "BGP informed" ask that too. However, they know the technology isn't quite up to this worthy trick: | magic behind the scenes ... "just works", and all traffic should | be able to use all of their connections. ... except where that is not desired for policy reasons (e.g., don't use the volume-charged connection when the flat-rate connection isn't full). These are *hard problems*, unfortunately, and are still in the land of blue-sky research. Meanwhile, the problem is that the demand to do fancy routing things outstrips the Internet's current collective ability to supply it. As a result, we have to say "no" (or more $ than you can afford) to alot of things that seem worthwhile. One of those things is "low-value prefixes", independent of who announces them to the world. | I think that the demand is there -- current products just don't allow it. That's the crux of the problem, independent of whose "fault" it is that current products are not up to the task. Sean.