I thought AS5397 said it was a limited test back in Feb 2005?

[Joe Abley]

On 2005-Apr-22, at 10:50 AM, Gert Doering wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 10:48:27AM -0400, Joe Abley wrote:
>
>> On 2005-Apr-21, at 5:25 PM, Daniel Roesen wrote:
>>
>>> in a 2005-03-01 posting to {nanog at merit.edu, routing-wg at ripe.net,
>>> ris-users at ripe.net} you've announced the plan to do those  
>>> experiments
>>> in IPv4 world and you heard a lot of concerns.
>>
>> I think it's more accurate to say that there were a small number of
>> concerns raised vocally by a small number of people.
>
> I saw nobody supporting their plans to "play around with global BGP
> announcements", though...

People play around with global BGP announcements every day of the  
year. If the Internet was really as sensitive to experimentation as  
some of the people in that NANOG thread suggested, it would have  
imploded years ago.


Joe