Gilmore and Freedman will suggest ways in which cooperating providers can accept deaggregated prefixes and/or send deaggregated prefixes to one another to allow the use of MEDs and best-exit routing. They will discuss how the deaggregated routes can help increase throughput, and show how the deaggregated prefixes can be confined to your internal network, so as not to leak to the global routing table.

About the Presenters
Patrick Gilmore is Sr. Network Architect for PGExpress, the ISP subsidiary of Pacific Gateway Exchange. He is building a global IP network that will practice best-exit routing based on some of the ideas presented at the BOF. Gilmore was formerly Sr. Network Engineer at Concentric Networks and Director of Operations at Priori Networks.