Helpful BGP Feature

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It may be helpful to add a feature to allow for Directed Route
announcements. The originator of a BGP Route, for example, could
specify in an optional attribute, the desired recipient(s) of the
Route Advertisement e.g.listing the AS numbers or IP addresses of
the Networks or even the specific gateways that should receive
the Route Advertisement.

This would allow for capabilities including:

Creating Virtual Private Networks. Controlling access to a
destination.

Limiting where Route advertisements are propogated. Not all
destinations need or want to be in all the Global Routing tables.
Avoiding the need to get Network Service Providers to place
complex policy statements on their Routers - which may not
have the desired granularity anyway.

Avoiding having to wait for Service Providers to enter the policy
changes,which sometimes can only occur during monthly
change windows.
Thanks, Ed Segal [e-mail] 914 784-3259