A really interesting read. I agree BGP leaks are a great risk to instability, but that could be said about any glitches that affect major backbones like NTT and

A really interesting read. I agree BGP leaks are a great risk to instability, but that could be said about any glitches that affect major backbones like NTT and Google (not a backbone but it's so well connected...). BGP Routing issues happened numerously, and will likely continue. Last year with Telia too had 4 or 5 "glitches" as they upgraded their network. [1] I talked to them about it and the mitigation is always the same, be more careful, peer review, additional filters, etc. Since each ISP implements BGP/Routing Tables/Topology in their own way, I'm not sure what you would do about this, other than choosing your peers carefully and filter any crazy route changes. [1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/20/telia_engineer_blamed_massive_net_outage/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/20/telia_engineer_blame...