Peering Policies and Route Servers

Tue Apr 30 17:13:36 UTC 1996

At 10:12 AM 4/30/96 -0700, Cengiz Alaettinoglu wrote:

>
>Route Servers are dynamic, they process upto 6000 routing updates a
>minute (see http://compute.merit.edu/stats/mae-east/instability).
>
>Route Servers are reconfigured with up to date policy 6 times a day,
>i.e. every four hours. Hence, a brand new route registered in IRR may
>not be announced by the route servers to the NSPs whose policies are
>prefix based for up to at most 4 hours. I think this is what you are
>referring to.
>

Cengiz, thanks for the clarification.

- paul