> Yes, the economics of routing are strange, and the lack of any real > strictures in the routing tables are testament to the observation that > despite more than two decades of tossing the idea around we've yet to > find the equivalent of a "route deaggregation tax" or a "route > advertisement tax" or any other mechanism that effectively turns the > routing space into a form of market that imposes some economic > constraints on the activity.
among other things, i suspect that the shadow of telco settlements makes us shy away from this. randy
