Re: IDR WG agenda

Yakov Rekhter <yakov@cisco.com> Tue, 25 February 1997 16:26 UTC

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To: Vince Fuller <vaf@wr.bbnplanet.com>
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Subject: Re: IDR WG agenda
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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 07:41:49 -0800
From: Yakov Rekhter <yakov@cisco.com>
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Vince,

>     As we are approaching our next meeting, we need to settle
>     on the possible agenda items. Please send me the items you'd
>     like to discuss at the WG meeting asap (within a week).
> 
> Yakov-
> 
> An issue recently surface in discussion among some of the larger providers
> about the use of local-pref and how it would be Real Nice if were something
> very similar to local-pref but which is not propagated through IBGP, i.e.
> it is only used to affect the next-hop decision for the router which receives
> it. Through a variety of crude approaches, local-pref can sort of be shoehorned
> into doing this but it isn't really the right tool. A few minutes on the agenda
> to discuss this particular issue would be nice (and no, I don't have an
> internet draft nor do I think I'm ready to give a presentation about this,
> but perhaps we can figure something out...)

Ok. I'll add this to the agenda.

Yakov.