13 Mar
2000
13 Mar
'00
1:41 p.m.
Inconsistent-AS. "Ick."
an as should have a single routing policy. that policy could be that all prefixes beginning with odd numbers are only announced in florida and those begining with even are only announced in stockholm. when one is a transit customer, one gets to set one's policy as one wishes. now peering can be a different matter. in that case, peers tend to make have complex requirements, e.g. some requirem that, for north american peerings, all prefixes must be announced at all peerings and with the same as paths. we need to remember that there are non-trivial hosting sites which pay for transit. randy