OK. No one else has nibbled. And as everyone knows, I'm not afraid to make a
fool of myself publicly.
So here goes......
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
Howard C. Berkowitz
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 9:18 PM
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Subject: Re: Weekend Challenge - Route Aggregation
>>SNIP for brevity<<
And a counterchallenge -- anyone want to take a stab and suggest why
certain of these might be being advertised as less-than-optimal
aggregations, for quite good reasons?
CL: as tempted as I am to crack wise about sloth and clue, it is more likely
that the lack of aggregation has to do with downstream requirements and
agreements in place. Far too many people are "load balancing on the
internet". Whether they need to or not is a different issue.
Note -- I have not researched whether these are or are not good
aggregations. But where might I look? What is the single most
important additional piece of information about each of these groups?
CL: RADB database? www.radb.net ? ARIN WHOIS? www.arin.net ?
CL: In terms of the internet backbone providers and Tier 1 ISP's, I suppose
it becomes a matter of the amount of work involved, particularly after the
spate of mergers in the last year or so. UUNet / MCI seems to be one of the
major "offenders" in the lack of CIDR conformance. Having dealt with both in
a limited fashion, I was highly impressed with their engineering prowess.
Which leads me to believe that massive aggregation on their part would be no
simple matter.
CL: is this what you were getting at?
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