filtering long prefixes

Thu Sep 21 09:59:10 UTC 1995

On Thu, 21 Sep 1995 05:27:36 -0400  Sean Doran wrote:
> 	reject BGP announcements which:
> 	-- are an old-style classful B network with a 
> 	   mask longer than 16 bits

We have assigned 'chunks' of old-style B's in cases where
it made a significant difference (obsolete equipment).
Again, I see no technical reason  not to do this;
as far as your routers are concerned, there is not difference
between 191.191.0.0/18 and 194.194.0.0/18

Geert Jan
(trying not to get into the discussion of the validity of
prefix length filtering again)