Re: [Idr] BGP Persistent Route Oscillation Solutions as WG item

Please send comments to the list by April 14, 2011.

I note there was some discussion of this on the list around May 10-12 2010, which wasn't resolved.  Folks may want to take a look at the archives.

--John

On Mar 30, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Alvaro Retana (aretana) wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> The 'BGP Persistent Route Oscillation Solutions' draft has been stable
> for quite some time; here's the latest version (no changes, just a
> refresh):
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-walton-bgp-route-oscillation-stop-04
> 
> I would like to request that this draft become a WG item.
> 
> As a reminder, I included the abstract below.
> 
> Thanks!!
> 
> Alvaro.
> 
> 
> Abstract
> 
>   In this document we present two sets of paths for an address prefix
>   that can be advertised by a BGP route reflector or confederation ASBR
>   to eliminate the MED-induced route oscillations in a network.  The
>   first set involves all the available paths, and would achieve the
>   same routing consistency as the full IBGP mesh.  The second set,
>   which is a subset of the first one, involves the neighbor-AS based
>   Group Best Paths, and would be sufficient to eliminate the MED-
>   induced route oscillations (subject to certain commonly adopted
>   topological constrains).
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