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


From: Petri Helenius <pete () he iki fi>
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 23:27:23 +0300


Bill Woodcock wrote:

     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?

Pay me to treat your prefixes more nicely?   1/2 :-)

Pete


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