RE: metarouting [Re: [RRG] recent progress in routing research]

["Dmitri Krioukov" <dima@caida.org>]

pekka, good point. in fact, it's one of my
central questions about this research direction.
while the main idea (i.e. to formalize policies)
is quite clear, it's unclear what constraints to
what we can call policies are. at the same time,
i think that this paper tries to be as general
and 'unconstrained' as possible, that's why i
think it's so good. however, there is no guarantee
that the 'maximum freedom' is achieved there :)  
--
dima.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rrg@psg.com [mailto:owner-rrg@psg.com] On Behalf 
> Of Pekka Savola
> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 9:11 AM
> To: Randy Bush
> Cc: rrg@psg.com
> Subject: Re: metarouting [Re: [RRG] recent progress in 
> routing research]
> 
> 
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Randy Bush wrote:
> >> The point for this paper (IMHO) in my opinion should be to prove
> >> that it can express the same things that BGP can do.
> >
> > if that was true, that it could model the brokenness, lack of
> > single solution, lack of convergence, ... then why do anything?
> > the point of the story is to express policy so that incorrect
> > policy is outside the notation.
> 
> Maybe the issue is whether the desire is to evolutionize or 
> revolutionize the currently deployed routing systems.  
> Evolution seems 
> to require being able to (at least initially, with some disclaimers, 
> etc.) represent the policies that are available as it is, otherwise 
> folks will not transition.  If the goal is to have a 
> revolution, maybe 
> there isn't need for backward-compatibility and you can just make a 
> clean break...
> 
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