Heads up: Long AS-sets announced in the next few days

Fri Mar 4 00:40:53 UTC 2005

On Mar 3, 2005, at 7:22 PM, James wrote:

>> 	You certainly need their permission before you can advertise routes 
>> that
>> falsely came to have passed through their network!
>
> What kind of specific _technical_ issue do I create by prepending 
> another ASN
> on AS_PATHs I advertise, without such "owner"'s permission?
>

Oh, I don't know,  increasing the size of an already bloated global 
routing table;  possibly crashing routers which are already starving 
for FIB RAM?  A certain level of stability is to be expected on the 
global routing table.  Playing with it isn't a 'good thing'.  Besides 
the fact that they are experimenting with the core of the Internet.  
What if their experiments had an unwanted effect?  What is the global 
financial impact of backbone instability?  That is an awful big grenade 
they are chucking about.

I think it is irresponsible for someone, no matter how educated or well 
intentioned to throw experiments into the middle of the network.

-Matt