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Re: Addr: Re: BGP-4 - revised I-D

"John G. Scudder" <jgs@ieng.com> Sat, 24 August 1996 02:12 UTC

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At 5:54 PM -0700 8/23/96, Tony Li wrote:
>If one were to follow down this path of global MED values, we're pretty
>much all the way back to a global administratively defined metric.  We can
>go there if folks want, but global metrics have always been a rathole to be
>avoided.

I agree.

>I would further suggest that any such metric might as well be an entirely
>new attribute, and that we allow MED to die a quiet death.

Furthermore, if this is to be done, there's no special reason to deprecate
MED.  Just provide a knob to allow stripping it at the border.  If you are
running a network that includes routers which don't support proper MED
handling, you'd best turn the "strip MED" knob.

--John

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