[afnog] How to convince providers to take the sane option....

[Mark Tinka]

On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 06:22:59 AM Ishmael Mulli (KE) 
wrote:

> We experienced this problem a couple of years back  and
> one major realization we made was that a lot of the
> providers out there were propagating routes with
> different prefix lengths  from different points within
> their network as opposed to consistently propagating the
> exact prefix  from the core outwards.

Ishmael, this is the succinct observation, yes. The question 
is - why?

I've posited some ideas as to why I think this happens. Do 
you have any thoughts on the same?

Mark.
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