No it was because we (Sprint, where I worked at that time) still felt that it was valuable. The change happened a couple of months after I left. From what I was told when the change happened, it was decided that it was no longer more important to do, then the pain it caused, because of massive increases in router memory, and the ability to do prefix-filters to clamp down on large eruptions. jon

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Actually Sprint continued filtering for 2 years after Sean left.

But was that because they could not figure out how to turn it off?

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