Hi, On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 08:29:05AM +0100, Mike Hughes wrote:
Joao asked me to forward some background to an item that I will do on Thursday.
This is the last draft of the defunct Route Aggregation Policy that was formulated by the LINX Council/Members, before it was rejected as a "policy" by the LINX General Meeting in August.
I think it would be really nice to have a BCP document to point people at - on the other hand it would require quite some amount of peer pressure to make it effective. I've been complaining to my non-aggregating peers regularily, and it just does not do any difference - usually those that deaggregate the worst are also those that don't even respond to the e-mails... Of course I could de-peer them - but then I still have the prefixes in my routing table, just have to pay for transit traffic. Nothing much gained, not much pressure built. The only thing that would work is if a significant number of peers would decide to block these prefixes (*and* the aggregates, otherwise there's not much gain), actually causing more hurt at the de-aggregating ISP's customers than towards their own... What a mess. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 81421 SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 D- 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-234