Re: [Idr] I-D Action: draft-ietf-idr-add-paths-10.txt

Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@pfrc.org> Fri, 24 October 2014 14:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Idr] I-D Action: draft-ietf-idr-add-paths-10.txt
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The update below addressed the major open issue that remained for the
feature, as deployed, to match the spec: The behavior for ebgp has been
moved out of operation and into deployment considerations.

I'm not an author, but I believe this draft is finally read for a hopefully
short Working Group Last Call.

-- Jeff

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 06:57:42AM -0700, internet-drafts@ietf.org wrote:
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
>  This draft is a work item of the Inter-Domain Routing Working Group of the IETF.
> 
>         Title           : Advertisement of Multiple Paths in BGP
>         Authors         : Daniel Walton
>                           Alvaro Retana
>                           Enke Chen
>                           John Scudder
> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-idr-add-paths-10.txt
> 	Pages           : 8
> 	Date            : 2014-10-24
> 
> Abstract:
>    In this document we propose a BGP extension that allows the
>    advertisement of multiple paths for the same address prefix without
>    the new paths implicitly replacing any previous ones.  The essence of
>    the extension is that each path is identified by a path identifier in
>    addition to the address prefix.
> 
> 
> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-add-paths/