The Internet Is Full of BGP Zombies : Stale Routes That Slow or Drop Connections

Cloudflare reduces BGP zombies by first announcing stable paths before withdrawal, helping you avoid surprise timeouts and confusing reroutes.
Network World

Viva ViAggre: Cornell and AT&T Labs researchers’ attempt to make router scalability sexy

Making Routers Last Longer with ViAggre ” to be presented next week at the 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, the researchers outline Virtual Aggregation (ViAggre), ...
Computerworld

‘Radical rethinking’ of Internet routing under way

Some of the world’s top network engineers are engaged in a research effort that could lead to the most radical redesign of the Internet’s underlying routing architecture since it was developed in the ...