Peace, On Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 9:24 PM Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote:
> BGP optimizers only harm the global Internet when route filters don't do > their job. (Un)Fortunately, many other things also harm the global Internet > when route filters don't do their job. > That is correct; however, there are potentially harmful things that cannot easily be avoided (so we accept the risk), and optimizers are not among those. E.g. there are quite a number of things which could cause an airplane to crash yet are still allowed onboard; but this alone isn't an argument convincing enough to allow handguns there. -- Töma
