Re: Helpful BGP Feature

[Yakov Rekhter <[e-mail]>]

Ed,

> 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.

It seems that what you are asking for is fairly similar to
DIST_LIST_INCL attribute in IDRP. Correct ?

Yakov.