Re: [RRG] BGP path hunting, MRAI timer and Path Length Damping

[jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)]

    > From: Tony Li <tli@cisco.com>

    >> BGP's convergence rate and the number of messages - which are two of
    >> the primary reasons we are having to invent a new routing and
    >> addressing architecture.

    > rough consensus (as of Prague) was quite the contrary: convergence and
    > messaging _can_ be handled without architectural changes.

Was that really the conclusion, as of Prague? I thought the only thing that
people agreed on was that the growth rate of the forwarding/routing tables,
in the static case (i.e. pure size, ignoring dynamic issues) was *technically
feasible* (which is not the same thing as 'economically feasible', n.b.).

I thought there was still significant concern about the dynamics... I mean,
it is a truism that as the network gets larger, the inter-event time for
topology changes goes down, and the stabilization time goes up, and the two
do have to cross somewhere...

	Noel

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