[lir-wg] Discussion about RIPE-261

Hi,

On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 04:32:14PM +0200, Daniel Roesen wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 03:42:28PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> > For us, as a small german ISP, it's not really important who is hooked
> > up where in the US or in the AP region - so a summary route "all this
> > stuff is in the US, send this to our upstream" (simplified) is likely
> > to suit us fine.
> 
> But you will still need to carry the routes in order to support
> your BGP customers. I doubt that they will be happy with upstream's
> vision of aggregation at all times...

Well, yes.  If you move up high enough in the routing hierarchy, your
downstream customers might want that information, and then you have to
carry full tables.

Nevertheless I see no good reason to take this option away from people
that might benefit from it.  If you don't want to use it, there's no big 
difference in doing the allocations "by regions" (however they might
look in the end - I'm not talking about countries, and yes, some border
line problems exist) or "just across all regions".

Gert Doering
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