[address-policy-wg] Re: Source of routing table growth

> Thanks Randy, after my 39th b-day last week, that was just what I
> needed :) 

wanna trade?

> How many times did you check what you receive from certain peers and
> asked them to update their filtering

and then depeered the worst

> just because they are not looking at what they advertize ? 

they are looking.  it is intentional.

> I do this on a regular basis and often people send a reply back that
> they forgot, blame a colleague or what not, but the 'moral' of the
> story is that people have no clue and their routers just spit out
> whatever they like.

often true at the smaller end.  at medium/large there is a lot of
intentional slicing to /24s, not for te but for hijack reduction.
i am hoping that, over the years, rpki-based origin validation will
remove some of the motivation for this.  but that's my silly form
of optimism.

randy