On 16/07/2019 20:41, Job Snijders wrote:
On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 3:33 PM Mike Hammett <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
More like do whatever you want in your own house as long as you
don't infringe upon others.
That's where the rub is; when using "BGP optimisers" to influence
public Internet routing, you cannot guarantee you won't infringe upon
others.
The argument against route optimizers (assuming appropriate
ingress\egress filters) is a religious one and should be treated
as such.
There is a difference between BGP optimizers and route optimizers. When
was the last time you heard a complain about Akamai screwing up the
global routing table over the past 12 years:
https://www.akamai.com/us/en/about/news/press/2007-press/akamai-introduces-advanced-communications-protocol-for-accelerating-dynamic-applications.jsp
https://developer.akamai.com/legacy/learn/Optimization/SureRoute.html
-Hank
