Hi, On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 03:06:29AM +0000, heasley wrote: > Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 04:36:56PM +0100, Job Snijders: > > pressure to set up bilateral sessions. > > Is that negative? Why not encourage ASes to have direct relationships > and stop maintaining route servers? They should develop those relationships > and it might even be suggested that security and trouble shooting could > rely upon it.
Economies of scale. DECIX has over 600 active participants, and I have little interest in talking to about 550 of them - but my routers would appreciate having direct routes to the networks behind them. So, route servers are a very (very!) welcome feature. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279 _______________________________________________ GROW mailing list GROW@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/grow