Re: Notes from 3/5/96 working group meeting

[Erik Sherk <[e-mail]>]

> 6) BGP Confederations
> 
> 	draft-trainia-bgp-confed-00.txt
> 
> 	It was moved that is be moved to experimental.
> 	In deployment Cisco discovered some problems with
> 	this approach.
> 
> 7) Route Reflection
> 
> 	draft-bates-route-reflect-00.txt
> 	
> 	Cisco has implemented the route reflection a year ago.
> 	MCI has used this in it's network for a year.
> 	(Has Bay implemented this?) 	
> 	 
> 	The working group recommends that this move forward to 
> 	experimental.  A work item for the group is to
> 	decide which solution to the IBGP mesh problem will
> 	be selected by the group: the Route Reflection 
> 	or the Route Server (Dimitry Haskins) or a cobmination
> 	of both. 

Hi,
	I'm sorry that I wasn't at the meeting, but I would like to
add my 2 cents worth.
	
	As someone who has deployed both route reflectors and
confederations (on seperate networks) I would say that a combination
of both is need if we are to scale to truly large networks.

	RRs work really well when you have a lot of hierarchy in your
network and confeds work well when you a mesh. Since most large networks
will have a combination of these, we will need to deply both.

Erik