On 11/7/24 21:42, Randy Bush wrote:

i used to resist.  my instinct is that the data plane and the control
plane should be congruent or you can have hard to debug issues[0].
but, as i have gotten older and lazier, and as you say, route servers
have gotten quite reliable, i have come over to the route server side.

I don't think there is any satisfactory argument that can be made for wanting to avoid route server routing. For the content/cloud folk, I think avoiding it provides a mechanism via which they can screen for the utility of having to keep an exchange point node upgraded and optimized for service.

Mark.