Re: Routing based proposals [Re: Draft of updated WG charter]

[Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>]

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On 2004-01-12, at 10.10, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

> On 12-jan-04, at 10:01, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote:
>
>>> I proposed aggregation based on geography inside service provider
>>> networks a while ago. I still think this is a useful approach, but I
>>> observed a decided lack of consensus in this area...
>
>> this is hardly a change of the routing algorithms though.
>
> Isn't it? BGP doesn't have a set algorithm. My proposal certainly 
> changes the way in which BGP routers handle routing information, even 
> though it does so through the use of filters and policy hooks rather 
> than by changing code.

I think we are drifting a bit of topic :-) When I read Brians mail I 
took at as meaning a new algorithm, or doing something else than 
path-vector, etc. In that sense geo based routing is no change. But 
let's leave it here, or take it private.

- - kurtis -

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