Re: draft-ietf-msdp-spec

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>]

In message <200304220027.h3M0RkG04044@windsor.research.att.com>, Bill Fenner wr
ites:
>
>>I'm surprised you didn't use TLS -- it would seem to be a natural 
>>choice.
>
>Well, MSDP was originally meant to be an extension to BGP, and used
>in the same contexts, so "the same as BGP" seemed to make sense at
>the time.  Now MSDP connections are more likely to be multi-hop than
>BGP, so maybe that decision doesn't make sense any more (or never did),
>but that's what the reasoning was.
>

Tnx.

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