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

[Joe Abley]

On 2005-Apr-22, at 11:11 AM, Gert Doering wrote:

> Sure, but usually they try to avoid doing this with other people's AS
> numbers.

People have been prepending other peoples' AS numbers into their  
advertisements as a coarse inter-domain traffic engineering tool for  
years. It has been described in NANOG tutorials on inter-domain  
traffic engineering. It's old news. Is this really that different?

AS_PATH is a loop detection mechanism, not some kind of legal  
endorsement of packet contents.


Joe