Internet core scale and market-based address allocation

Sun May 11 16:56:12 UTC 2003

> > > Route advertisements do not fit any existing model, since an advertisement
> > > affects all members of the system equally, no matter how far away they are
> > > from the advertisement.
> > 
> > 	Er. Not at all.
> > 	Please review routing 101.  
> > 	Pop quiz.  define prefix filtering and proxy aggregation
> > 
> > --bill
> 
> Reread my email dated 4/17/2003 with subject of "selective auto-aggregation"
> I think you'll find I've already given some thought on proxy aggregation
> as better than prefix-filtering for maintaining connectivity while limitting
> the effects of someone else's deaggregation.

Sprint did that in 1994-95. Or at least threatened to do it when one ISP
that now had been bought by a promsing local ISP decided not to aggregate.
The Sprint's move was enough to force that ISP to aggregate.

Alex