Re: IDR WG agenda

[Curtis Villamizar <[e-mail]>]

In message <[e-mail]>, Vince Fuller writes:
>     Isn't that MED with a BGP community to send MED no further?
> 
> Is this "BGP community" in the sense of the IRR or in the sense of the
> community attribute? An IRR community isn't very useful to most of us and
> while a well-known community attribute number could be defined to mean this,
> none exists at present (though that might be a reasonable solution).

I meant a yet to be defined BGP community.  Making it a well known
community would help.

> There was also some feeling among the large provider community that overloadi
> ng
> MED in this way could cause other problems, so a separate attribute may be
> preferred.

Getting the right next hop is a common use for MED.  I think what you
are asking for is something like this that is guarenteed not to be
propogated further.

> Other comments from anyone familiar with the problem to be solved here?
> 
> 	--Vince

Curtis