Re: bgp4-17 Cease subcode

[Russ White <[e-mail]>]

> > My primary question at this point isn't over leaving in text
> > about somehow controlling flapping sessions, but whether or not
> > we should say that exponential backup is the right way to do
> > this. There might be more interesting ways that crop up in the
> > future, so we should leave this open for thought, I think.
> 
> I thought about this as well, and it seemed to me that if
> this feature was documented as optional, that would leave
> enough flexibility for the implementers to either not use it
> at all (this would also solve the question of whether the
> current implementations that do not do so are RFC-compliant)
> or come up with a different scheme that would solve the
> problem in another way, and, at the same time, give some clue
> on one way of doing this thing.

This would work (as I said before)....

> On the other hand, I think it would be equally good if the
> spec did not spell out the details and we had another
> document discussing the topic in detail... if we have such a
> commitment, of course ;-)

But I prefer this, even if there isn't a commitment for a doc
(yet).

:-)

Russ

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