Re: nit on the alt-abr document

[Alex Zinin <zinin@psg.com>]

Harald-

Wednesday, February 5, 2003, 7:24:16 PM, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> nit: ABR is defined at first usage. ASBR is not defined.
> suggest an RFC Editor note to expand at first usage.

Below is my answer to Steve who brought up exactly the same
question. Basically, "ASBR" is not a new term that this doc
introduces. However, if this doesn't seem reasonable, I can
add a note.

Alex

This is a forwarded message
From: Alex Zinin <zinin@psg.com>
To: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
Cc: iesg@ietf.org, iesg-secretary@ietf.org
Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2003, 11:01:11 PM
Subject: draft-ietf-ospf-abr-alt-05.txt

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Steve,

[as a co-author, if it's ok]

ASBR is defined (as "AS boundary router") in RFC2328, which is a
normative reference, i.e., a must-read.

-- 
Alex

Tuesday, February 04, 2003, 6:10:22 PM, Steve Bellovin wrote:
> ASBR is used but not expanded, ever.



>                 --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
>                 http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)



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