[AusNOG] Small Pipe BNE/Agile issue

[James Spenceley]

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>> I was talking about routing policy, the relationship is bilateral  
>> between you and the route-sever, they decide the "global" policy.
> That's the problem - _I_ want to decide global policy for me - not  
> someone else's route server.  I point to the discussion above and  
> below you're making about trying to deaggregate to influence policy  
> - clearly YOU also want to control global policy.

Yes, I do and the great thing about BGP is there are so many tools.

The argument that I should have the *right* to decide where my traffic  
goes, is in no way more valid than I should have the *right* to decide  
how I get my traffic. In the end its a technical function in a  
router ... as path beats neighbour address, lpref beats AS path,  
specific route beats lpref. Everyone has the required tools to  
implement their policies.

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>
>> I'm not asking anyone to accept >/24s just saying that it actually  
>> a very valid way to traffic engineer, some people seem to have take  
>> offense at being sent routes >/24 and if they want to filter go  
>> ahead. I'll keep my options open.
> So, would you like a fence to sit on here James? :-)

Ha, fair cop. So here it is in black and white. A lot of the world  
relies on AS path for path selection, or incorrectly uses local-pref.  
I think its valid that we de-aggregate to the Peering / MLPAs to  
ensure the most amount of traffic stays on the IX. If you have a bunch  
of traffic rich /24 then there is no reason you shouldn't advertise  
the /25 to get the same effect.

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> MMC


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James