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

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>]

On 2-sep-04, at 23:58, Randy Bush wrote:

> > If you don't implement ripe-229, why not?

> because the golden address space stuff is stupid

Maybe so, but 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

But then again, dampening really doesn't buy you much as it only 
applies to routes that are flapping beyond the link to the next AS. So 
if you have an instable link somewhere, you can't dampen that 
instability away yourself.