Geoff Huston wrote: > > I'm not arguing for or against this - I'm attempting to understand the > precise nature of the difference. > > Its my understanding so far that the two representations are > isomorphic - nothing expressible in one notation is inexpressible in > the other. The only difference _as far as I can see_ lies in the size > of the ROA in expressing sets of prefixes, and as far as I can see a > set of conjoined prefixes with the same maximal length constraint > would have a more compact representation with a min length parameter. > Or am I missing something still in my understanding of this?
No, that is it. (Other than the intrinsic self-documenting nature of the compact representation, vs the expansion thereof.) There are subtleties lost when enumeration is the only solution. My favorite example of succinct and subtle was in Terminator 2: "How many cops are there?" "All of them, I think." Brian _______________________________________________ sidr mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sidr
