<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>No, but most network operators also aren't NANOG members, attend NANOG shows, subscribe to NANOG lists.<div><br></div><div>They're small outfits where there's between 1 - 5 total networking people.</div><div><br></div><div>Circling back to earlier where I said there are almost 70k ASNs in use on the public Internet. Most of those operators don't have complex configurations. I'd be surprised if less than half of them had anything more than the most minimal default route configuration.<br><br><div><span name="x"></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>http://www.ics-il.com<br><br>Midwest-IX<br>http://www.midwest-ix.com<span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Mark Tinka" <mark.tinka@seacom.com><br><b>To: </b>"Mike Hammett" <nanog@ics-il.net><br><b>Cc: </b>nanog@nanog.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, September 9, 2020 8:13:32 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: BGP Community - AS0 is de-facto "no-export-to" marker - Any ASN reserved to "export-only-to"?'<br><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/Sep/20 15:06, Mike Hammett wrote:<br>
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Do you have some empirical data on that?<br>
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I don't know if it's more, or less. But as Charlton Heston said in
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"So far this is not blowing my skirt up, gentlemen. Don't you have
anything remotely substantial, Harry? Do you have any HARD DATA?"<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/-KHkltl22V4?t=73" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/-KHkltl22V4?t=73</a><br>
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Mark.<br>
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