[routing-wg]RE: a (perhaps) naive question...

[Paul Francis francis@localhost]

Actually, never mind, I got the answer (and feel a bit stupid for not knowing
it in the first place).

PF
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Francis 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 3:16 PM
> To: Routing WG
> Subject: a (perhaps) naive question...
> 
> 
> 
> I was wondering the other day why we don't do aggregating in 
> BGP along the lines of registry assignments.  For instance, 
> what stops the set of ISPs within Europe from from taking the 
> 15 or 20 prefixes given to RIPE by IANA, and collectively 
> aggregating those prefixes when advertising to non-RIPE ISPs? 
>  It seems to me that they could advertise all of their AS#'s 
> as a huge AS-set for these prefixes.
> 
> Is there a technical issue that prevents this, or does the 
> organizational effort needed simply outweigh the benefit that 
> would accrue?
> 
> PF
>