Route filters, IRRs, and route objects

Mark Prior mrp at mrp.net
Fri Mar 29 05:09:40 UTC 2002


At 1:48 PM -0500 27/3/02, Przemyslaw Karwasiecki wrote:
>Why it is required by some providers to generate explicit,
>exact route objects, in order to allow routes through
>their filters?
>
I worked on the assumption that the customer would think about what 
they were doing if they had to register them all. It didn't stop 
people doing it but I think it generated more discussion on what they 
really wanted to achieve than if we just allowed it automagically.

Mark.



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