Re: Verio Decides what parts of the internet to drop

[Danny McPherson <danny () qwest net>]

> > > There are ways to get around this (as-path filtering, maximum-paths, etc)
> > > that aren't as nazi as one would hope, but will prevent stupidity and
> > > provide sanity checking.
> >
> >     Maximum paths deals primarily with ibgp
>
> Well, thats patently wrong. I don't know how else to respond to this.

It's actually "maximum-prefix" in Cisco parlance, perhaps this introduced the confusion. 

As for Verio's policy of filtering based on registry allocations, I know of several other providers that implement it 
as well, and have for quite a while.  

-danny