What is needed is for the networks in the transit-free club to decide they will not honor any "gray market" route advertisements resulting from extra-normal transfers of this nature, whether the announcement is from a peer or a customer. As we are all aware, no real dent was ever made in routing table growth except by Sprint deciding what it was willing to accept. The up-side to a huge, unchecked gray market benefits "bad guys," such as spammers, much more than it does ordinary operators and end-users, on this I think we can all agree. The recent thread on DFZ growth also demonstrates clearly that uncertainty as to whether or not such an unchecked gray market will be allowed to exist, or even thrive, is driving most of us to strike routers with 500k FIB from our list (many of us have been doing so for years.) This means that the uncertainty has already created cost for operators and thus end-users. The sooner the big players get together on this and decide not to allow such a gray market, the better off we will be. Since some of these big players have huge legacy address pools already, there is little disadvantage to those networks refusing to honor gray market announcements from their customers, and probably no disadvantage to accepting them from peers, as long as they are not the sole actor. I anxiously await an xtra-normal announcement forbidding extra-normal routes. -- Jeff S Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz> Sr Network Operator / Innovative Network Concepts