Re: about draft-kim-bgp-community-site-multihoming-00

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 27 okt 2003, at 20:50, Pekka Savola wrote:
> 
> > I had a very brief look at the document
> > draft-kim-bgp-community-site-multihoming-00:
> 
> Would it be possible to quote the full URL for drafts? That's much 
> easier than having to search for the all over the place.

Unless otherwise stated, prepend them with "www.ietf.org/internet-drafts", 
and you're done :-)

> >         An Application of the BGP Extended Community Attribute for
> >                      Distributed IPv6 Site Multihoming
> 
> > .. however, it introduces a number of big problems:
> 
> Yes. I don't really understand the whole thing, 

My perception as wel.. :-)

> but it does seem to 
> depend on propagating per-multihomed site information throughout the 
> network using BGP. If we could do this we wouldn't be here trying to 
> come up with all this complicated stuff in the first place. But we 
> can't because propagating this information doesn't scale, so we are.

Exactly..

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