[j-nsp] BGP full mesh or route reflector

Mark Tinka mark at tinka.africa
Wed Jan 21 20:54:55 EST 2026



On 21/01/2026 15:59, Saku Ytti via juniper-nsp wrote:
> Writing one line of code can easily be dozen decisions.
>
> We assume all the time. And it's the only way to get something actually done.
>
> If we'd carefully consider every possible question, it would take
> prohibitively long to do anything and it still wouldn't impact the
> probability of success in a meaningful way.
>
> We hope that the people involved are making a lot of good assumptions.
> But now we've decided if that is too slow, to have subject matter
> experts make assumptions, so we've spent a few trillion on an
> automated assumption machine, using output as it, with no one involved
> competent to evaluate it.

I think BGP Confederations are feeling left out, as we assume :-)...

Mark.


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