29 Nov
2000
29 Nov
'00
3:12 p.m.
That is NOT the same as saying "Will my /18 get advertised ubiquitously?", as I suspect the answer to this latter question is "no, there are a number of transits who are applying prefix filters such that these announcements will not be carried across their networks."
bingo! see <http://psg.com/~randy/001023.nanog/> for why this is done. randy