At 04:03 PM 3/2/97 -0600, Scott Huddle wrote:

I'll assert that if the costs of accepting a route announcement are non-zero that this can only happen if there is a market for announcements and a system of settlements between providers.

If the costs are zero, then why have the filters?

I'd suggest that costs are non-zero, and they cannot be quantified by dollars, at least today. Since the majority of instability in the global Internet is originated by prefixes longer than /19's, the amount of resources consumed is an exercise left for the reader. - paul