Where does it no longer make sense to deaggregate? Isn't that a bunch
related to what problem the initial announcement is trying to solve?

On Sun, Nov 3, 2019, 15:29 Robert Raszuk <[email protected]> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Allow me to express a bit of a different view - this time from enterprise
> perspective.
>
> Actually announcing more specifics of the block one owns has real service
> advantages. So in itself it is actually a good thing !
>
> What is bad for Internet is propagating those more specific routes beyond
> the point that they make any difference any longer.
>
> There was proposal to aggregate those at dynamic points where sending them
> no longer brings any service/routing advantages, but apparently at that
> time no one cared much:
>
> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-marques-idr-aggregate-00.txt
>
> - - -
>
> See assume I own /19 for a global network. I can't possibly announce that
> block via all of my 20 ISP peerings globally as top requirement is not to
> keep the Internet BGP table tiny, but rather to offer best service to
> customers.
>
> Further more imagine I offer various services based on geo location. For
> customers in Japan I want them to go to Japan DMZ and not float to any
> other location just because his ISP is one AS hop away from NY and two AS
> hops away from Osaka or Tokyo ISPs I peer with. So if I would attract such
> service to US I would need to carry it back to Tokyo over global WAN -
> disaster.
>
> See even /24 is a very coarse limit one has to deal with. I may have few
> gateways for a given service per site not 255. And each service has
> completely different service requirements from the network characteristic.
> If I have 8 ISPs there
>
> It is very clear (at least to some) that basic BGP best path routing is
> suboptimal.. For years folks have been using SLA based routing to steer
> packets over non necessarily BGP best path between Internet endpoints. The
> more fine are the announcements the better egress path selection can be
> achieved. So the Internet is no longer used to reach A & B. It is used to
> reach A & B in most optimal way for a given application.
>
> Let's therefore keep those points in mind while blindly bashing
> "deaggregation" and calling names those who do it :). I bet no one is doing
> that just for fun.
>
> Enterprises are doing it to provide the best level of service. ISPs do it
> to serve the needs of their customers. It is feasible to enhance BGP to
> aggregate when it no longer makes sense to carry more specific prefixes -
> let's rethink this.
>
> Thx,
> R.
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 8:41 PM Nick Hilliard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Gert Doering wrote on 03/11/2019 19:15:
>> > On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 03:10:29PM +0000, Martijn Schmidt wrote:
>> >>> Maybe "BGP Deaggregation Slopping" as a working title?
>> >> Or "Scenic BGP Deaggregation", or "BGP Globetrotting", or "BGP
>> >> Castaways". If anything a connotation with the sea and/or submarine
>> >> cables would be appropriate, I think!
>> >
>> > "BGP vandalism"
>>
>> "Noxious Routing"?
>>
>> Nick
>>
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