RIPE "Golden Networks" Document ID - 229/210/178

Sat Sep 4 20:27:23 UTC 2004

Bill Woodcock wrote:

>      On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
>    > the logic seems rather irrefutable:
>    > - as a rule, shorter prefixes are more important and/or more stable
>    > than long ones
>    > - so we dampen long prefixes more aggressively
>    > - the root DNS servers tend to live in long prefixes
>    > - so we exclude the root DNS prefixes
>
>What about the ccTLD prefixes?  There are a lot more of them.  And the
>gTLDs?  And exchange points?  And Microsoft Update servers?  Where do you
>stop?
>
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>
Pay me to treat your prefixes more nicely?   1/2 :-)

Pete