[6bone] Re: routing concern

[Robert J. Rockell]

As always, Sprint loves all of it's peers and customers, but asks that they
help make sure that love remains bi-directional, by filtering appropriately
:)

Thanks
Rob Rockell
SprintLink International
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Sprint IP Services
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On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Michel Py wrote:

->> Robert J. Rockell
->> The 6bone is a learning network.  However, keep your learning
->> site-local, unless people agree that they want to learn too,
->> please.
->
->Agree. I should have mentioned that I do not filter ingress, but I do
->filter egress routes.
->
->However, I don't have a problem with my peers feeding me unfiltered
->routes.
->
->I *do* agree with your posting, but the reason that route was broadly
->seen is because lots of 6bone participants are still in the "learn"
->mode.
->
->So, it might be that there is an unspoken consensus about the 6bone
->still being a big learning tool, and the "unless otherwise agreed upon
->by your connection partner" might be considered a default by many.
->
->Following the logic, the ones to blame are people that peer directly
->with you because they should have filtered the route. Well, I will not
->be the one to throw the first stone at them.
->
->Michel.
->
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