Re: I-D ACTION:draft-mcpherson-rfc3065bis-00.txt

Danny McPherson <danny@tcb.net> Thu, 17 October 2002 15:54 UTC

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> The document should be clarified.
> GateD currently pays attention to the neighboring AS regardless of
> whether its a confederation or not.
> The *DEFAULT* behavior of Cisco and Juniper is to not pay attention,
> but that depends which of way too many knobs are set.  

I'll attempt to clarify in the next rev.
 
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk365/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094431.shtml
> http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/software/junos54/swconfig54-routing/html/protocols-overview4.html#1014020
> 
> Just the fact that so many knobs are available sheds light on the
> fact that many ISPs think MEDs are just evil and should be stripped.

And I tend to agree...

-danny