Re: comments on requirements-05

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

On woensdag, mei 7, 2003, at 01:36 Europe/Amsterdam, Joe Abley wrote:

> >    [7]  Huston, G., "Analyzing the Internet's BGP Routing Table",
> >         January 2001.
> > ==> especially for a *normative reference*, the reference should IMO 
> > be much
> > more explicit (e.g. refer to a publication and give a URL or the 
> > like).
> I will find an URL.
Seems all of this is suffering from "broken-URL-itis". You can probably 
find something resembling the original in Cisco's Internet Protocol 
Journal, but it has since become an RFC unless I'm very much mistaken: 
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3221.txt

Also note that things have changed since then (only 8% growth), Geoff 
presented a different story at Apricot 2002: 
http://www.apricot2002.net/download/Conference/22/01.pdf "An 
Examination of the Internet's BGP Table Behaviour in 2001" but again 
the URL is broken. (There should be a law against that.)

Also, he unfairly blames multihomers, while not aggregating is the 
number one, two and three reason for the growth in the global routing 
table.

> > ==> "backhoe-fade" ?  No idea what that means, and couldn't find it
> > in a dictionary either.
> http://www.net.oregonstate.edu/netvideo/dugout.html
So are you going to include the URL in the text or what???

Remember that RFCs are published by an international standards 
organization. As such, the text should be clear also for people who 
have English as their second or third language and are unfamiliar with 
American colloquialisms.

Iljitsch