Re: [babel] Alvaro Retana's Discuss on draft-ietf-babel-source-specific-07: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> Thu, 05 November 2020 14:21 UTC

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Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr> writes:

>> I do believe the choice was, in fact, not done by coin toss, but I'll
>> let Juliusz chime in here as I'm not sure I'm able to explain it myself...
>
> Please see the penultimate paragraph of Section IV.C of [SS-ROUTING].  The
> final authors' draft (essentially identical to the published version) is
> available online at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1403.0445

Ah, right, obviously source-specific default routes won't work unless
destination-first ordering is used... Thanks for the pointer, should
have just realised that myself.

-Toke