/24s run amuck

Thu Jan 15 04:37:36 UTC 2004

--On Wednesday, January 14, 2004 3:36 PM -0500 Daniel Golding 
<dgolding at burtongroup.com> wrote:

> There is one mechanism for helping to solve this. Is there an RFC,
> informational or otherwise that clearly specifies that BGP announcements
> to peers and transit providers must be aggregated to the greatest extent
> possible?

Just want to clarify that BGP announcements to peers should by default be 
aggregated as far as possible, but can be completely deaggregated if both 
parties agree.

For example, if you have a BGP session with my employer and we haven't 
mentioned it recently, we would *love* deaggregation.  Send us /32s, MEDs, 
communities and we'll chew it up and ask for more.

But we're special - we don't have a network and we don't sell transit.