Re: [routing-wg]Routing Aggregation Policy

[Gert Doering <]

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 08:29:05AM +0100, Mike Hughes wrote:
> Joao asked me to forward some background to an item that I will do on
> Thursday.
> 
> This is the last draft of the defunct Route Aggregation Policy that was
> formulated by the LINX Council/Members, before it was rejected as a
> "policy" by the LINX General Meeting in August.

I think it would be really nice to have a BCP document to point people
at - on the other hand it would require quite some amount of peer pressure
to make it effective.  I've been complaining to my non-aggregating peers
regularily, and it just does not do any difference - usually those that
deaggregate the worst are also those that don't even respond to the
e-mails...

Of course I could de-peer them - but then I still have the prefixes in
my routing table, just have to pay for transit traffic.  Nothing much
gained, not much pressure built.

The only thing that would work is if a significant number of peers
would decide to block these prefixes (*and* the aggregates, otherwise
there's not much gain), actually causing more hurt at the de-aggregating
ISP's customers than towards their own...

What a mess.

Gert Doering
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