IDPR architecture comments

[Martha Steenstrup <[e-mail]>]

Hello Yakov,

Thanks for your comments.

I don't think that I ever said anything about BGP/IDRP and distance
vector distribution graphs.  My reference to BGP/IDRP in the latest
set of comments on the architecture document was an acknowledgement of
your comment that loop suppression was taken care of by information
contained in the distance messages themselves.

The "transient" loop problem revisited.  admittedly, i expect this
event to be rare.  but unfortunately, jitter will not make the problem
disappear.  X and Y need not be synchronized for this event to happen.
all that must happen is that each receives and selects a distance
vector (to Z) not containing the other before receiving the distance
vector from the other.  if X and Y are closer to Z than they are to
each other, then they are more likely to experience the problem.

m