On 16/10/2014 01:43, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 15 Oct 2014, at 14:41, Nick Hilliard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> There seem to be two types of organizations that do this: geographically
>>> dispersed ones that advertise subprefixes in different locations, such
>>> as multinationals, and organizations with very independent subunits but
>>> with more limited geographical scope, such as national governments.
>
>> and organisations who have a requirement for traffic engineering, whether
>> this requirement is real or imaginary - there are well known examples of
>> each.
>
> Right, we should probably add that.
>
> Although I wouldn't expect an organization to deaggregate down to hundreds or
> thousands of more specifics just for traffic engineering.
Not to hundreds, but I would expect a large multinational with operations
in most countries to deaggregate down to something close to one per country,
to keep its traffic patterns reasonably local. That's nothing new.
Brian
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