Re: more specific routes in today reality

[Havard Eidnes <]

> Quote from RFC1930, "Guidelines for creation, selection, and registration
> 		     of an Autonomous System (AS)", page 7:
>
> "With the introduction of aggregation it should be noted that a prefix may 
> be represented as residing in more than one AS, however, this is very much 
> the exception rather than the rule".
>
> Quote from RFC2725, "Routing Policy System Security", page 9:
>
> "Route objects may exist for the same prefix with multiple origin AS values 
> due to common multihoming practice that does not require a unique origin AS".
>
> RFC1930, Category: Best Current Practice, March 1996
> RFC2725, Category: Standards Track, Dec 1999

Just a point of clarification: that some text in a standards track RFC
mentions a practice and permits that practice to be described, does
not mean that the practice itself is standardized or recommended.

But we all knew that already, right?

Regards,

- Håvard