Transition Draft Comments

  > "Dale S. Johnson" <dsj at merit.edu> writes:
  > ...
  > 
  > I wonder if we have a fundamental nomenclature problem, though, about
  > what a route is?  I'm used to thinking of a route as the combination of
  > the dotted-quad and the mask, so that "193.0.0.0/8" and "193.0.0.0/24"
  > are different routes.  Under this definition, you would still only have
  > one active registration of a route at one time, except for the very
  > unusual case of two different providers doing the same proxy aggregation
  > simulatneously in different parts of the world (e.g. 193/8 being created
  > on export to North America, and simultaneously being created by someone
  > else on export to the Middle East).

A route is uniquely identified by the "route" and "origin" attributes.

route:       193.0.0.0/24
descr:       RIPE-NCC
origin:      AS3333
....

and 

route:       193.0.0.0/24
descr:       RIPE-NCC
origin:      AS4444
....

are different routes.


Daniel



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