RE: Performance metrics used in commercial BGP route optimizers

[Ryan Hamel <Ryan.Hamel () quadranet com>]

Nowhere near the number as an engineer fat fingering a route. There are ISPs that accept routes all the way to /32 or 
/128, for traffic engineering with ease, and/or RTBH.

Ryan

-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG <nanog-bounces () nanog org> On Behalf Of Nick Hilliard
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 11:04 AM
To: Job Snijders <job () instituut net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: Re: Performance metrics used in commercial BGP route optimizers

Job Snijders wrote on 16/07/2019 18:41:
> I consider it wholly inappropriate to write-off the countless hours 
> spend dealing with fallout from "BGP optimizers" and the significant 
> financial damages we've sustained as "religious arguments".

it would be interesting to see research into the financial losses experienced by people and organisations across the 
internet caused by routing outages relating to bgp optimisers.

Nick