At 07:36 AM 3/2/97 PST, Randy Bush wrote:

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I would suggest that the largest percentage of flapping prefixes in the global routing system belong to prefixes longer than /19.

Hence the convention to damp differently for different lengths. See one of the foils in http://www.psg.com/~randy/970210.nanog/, which suggests that we over here start following the European lead on this.

This appears reasonable to me. - paul

randy