more specific routes in today reality
Havard Eidnes he at uninett.no
Wed Nov 7 15:51:30 CET 2001
> Quote from RFC1930, "Guidelines for creation, selection, and registration > of an Autonomous System (AS)", page 7: > > "With the introduction of aggregation it should be noted that a prefix may > be represented as residing in more than one AS, however, this is very much > the exception rather than the rule". > > Quote from RFC2725, "Routing Policy System Security", page 9: > > "Route objects may exist for the same prefix with multiple origin AS values > due to common multihoming practice that does not require a unique origin AS". > > RFC1930, Category: Best Current Practice, March 1996 > RFC2725, Category: Standards Track, Dec 1999 Just a point of clarification: that some text in a standards track RFC mentions a practice and permits that practice to be described, does not mean that the practice itself is standardized or recommended. But we all knew that already, right? Regards, - Håvard
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