On 2010.04.05. 6:47, Danny McPherson wrote:
Of ~344k prefixes in the current routing system:
[...]
So, one couple make an assumption that only 9 of these have any
chance of being an problem today, and it might well not be an issue
-- unless you're one of those folks, of course.
As long as the spec supports it and people use it, we
need to, methinks...
-danny
I disagree with this. I think that spending hours and hours on specifying,
debating, coding, testing, etc. a feature that is used in 0.02% (or 0.003%,
depending on how you count) of the cases is not a good investment, imo.
Such an underused feature will not have a well tested codebase, with all
possible bugs ironed out, which is a recipe for security problems.
Robert
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