Re: [sidr] Burstiness of BGP updates

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Thu, 17 November 2011 01:44 UTC

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Subject: Re: [sidr] Burstiness of BGP updates
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> Security compares what the state currently looks like to what the state
> should look like.

the problem is how does one know what the state of the system 'should'
look like?

randy