On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 10:11 -0400, Randy Bush wrote: > > If you look back to the NSFNet days (prior to a decade ago) and > > the PRDB (Policy Routing Database), you might very well draw a > > different conclusion. > > indeed, one of utter disaster. it would take days or weeks > before one could route a prefix. >
I suspect this was due to the fact that template submissions were not fully automated at the time and required human review (disclaimer: I worked for the MichNet side of Merit back then and was not intimately familiar with PRDB operations). -Larry
