Re: DRAFT 2.0 of Route-Flap Dampening Paper, last call for comments

[Andrew Partan <]

>     Because a significant number of important services is sitting in long
>     prefixes (e.g. root nameservers) the progressive approach has to exclude
>     the strong penalisation for those long but "golden" prefixes.

Can someone spell out a bit more the reason behind exempting the
routes that the root servers live in from being damped?  Why should
they get special treatment?  And why just them (and the rest of
the hosts that happen to live in those prefixes)?

There are a lot of root servers; if you can't reach some of them,
so what?
	--asp@localhost (Andrew Partan)