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Re: soBGP deployment


From: "Larry J. Blunk" <ljb () merit edu>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 11:27:14 -0400


On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 10:11 -0400, Randy Bush wrote:
If you look back to the NSFNet days (prior to a decade ago) and
the PRDB (Policy Routing Database), you might very well draw a
different conclusion.

indeed, one of utter disaster.  it would take days or weeks
before one could route a prefix.


   I suspect this was due to the fact that template submissions
were not fully automated at the time and required human
review (disclaimer: I worked for the MichNet side of Merit
back then and was not intimately familiar with PRDB
operations).

 -Larry




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