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target="_blank">oof1@students.waikato.ac.nz</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I'm doing a research on BGP route optimisation and
the performance metrics used by commercial route optimizer appliances to
select better path to a prefix. </div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You may have discovered that already during your research, but just in case: basically, using those optimizers at full throttle is a bad practice and is generally discouraged.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">A research into the deep-juju of BGP optimization is roughly equivalent to a research about how alcohol may make you a faster driver. I.e. it's fine in academy but you certainly may want to emphasize security considerations in your paper.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">--</div><div dir="auto">Töma</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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