RE: WG next steps

["Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>]

> Christian Huitema wrote:
> I would not be so sure about "rational". There is some
> documented evidence that the path selected by the routing
> fabric is often not the shortest route between two points;
> this is easy to understand because BGP is about policy,
> not metrics;

This is very true, but what is also true is that the enterprise network
manager also has traffic engineering concerns that are way easier to
handle with network policies than with host decisions.

Michel.