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
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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