Re: RIPE "Golden Networks" Document ID - 229/210/178

[Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net>]

      On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
    > the logic seems rather irrefutable:
    > - as a rule, shorter prefixes are more important and/or more stable
    > than long ones
    > - so we dampen long prefixes more aggressively
    > - the root DNS servers tend to live in long prefixes
    > - so we exclude the root DNS prefixes

What about the ccTLD prefixes?  There are a lot more of them.  And the
gTLDs?  And exchange points?  And Microsoft Update servers?  Where do you
stop?

                                -Bill