[routing-wg]Routing Aggregation Policy

Wed Oct 12 21:29:43 CEST 2005

On 12/10/2005 19:34, Marco d'Itri wrote:

>On Oct 12, Mike Hughes <mike at linx.net> wrote:
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>>A LINX member shall announce no more than (N * 2) + 3 prefixes, where N is
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>I could not find a rationale for these numbers.
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The original suggestion was (N * 1.5), with a 12 month grace period 
(When it was still being debated as a mandatory requirement) allowing (N 
* 2). The +3 was added later to allow smaller ISPs, particularly those 
with only one prefix, some space to deaggregate.

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