RE: requirements draft revision

[Vijay Gill <vijay@umbc.edu>]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Tony Hain wrote:

> In multi6-multihoming-requirements requirement - 3.1.3 Performance -
> is simply bogus. The example given is managing traffic flows to avoid
> a specific remote congestion point. As it is not possible for any
> organization to reliably affect the routing policies of another
> organization (even the first hop), this is basically an unrealistic
> expectation. Taken to the limit, the requirement presented means every
> site has ultimate real-time

Many organizations, including the networks I've worked on, have specific
communities that can be used to color prefixes, such that the routing
policy is changed for those prefixes.

/vijay