Message-ID: red-13-msg951213213258MTP[01.51.00]000000ac-28766 MCI announces smaller routes for its customers that do not use the CIDR blocks given to MCI. If you brought address space to MCI they would announce it. The most important thing is that on NEW CIDR blocks they stay aggregated. This is why Sprint will not listen to the announcement of /18 or less address space in the 207.xx/8 block. Painful but effective. Ted L. ---------- From: Jon Zeeff <jon@branch.com> To: <cook@cookreport.com> Cc: <dmbarton@mci.net>; <smd@chops.icp.net>; <freedman@netaxs.com>; <nanog@merit.edu> Subject: Re: Sprint BGP filters in 207.x.x.x? Date: Wednesday, December 13, 1995 1:17PM I think this is misleading. MCI does announce routes smaller than this for its customers.

MCI aggregates all its customer's routes into /19's. We have just