Re: [Idr] draft on virtual aggregation

Hi Curtis,

> Idr should not be adding a hack for small gain in FIB size when better
> techniques exist and products already exist with quite a few binary
> orders of magnitude headroom.

This is not a hack. In fact all what this is about can be accomplished 
today by sitting down and configuring three routers: edge, lookup router 
and egress (an option). If someone really want to divide the addressing 
space as Paul suggest marking can be reg community. This is provider 
contained solution - it does not cross any inter-as boundaries.

All this document attempts to is present such option for operators. Some 
may find them useful some may not.

Moreover there are other then edge FIB scaling real operational benefits 
for such solutions ... to name one I want to point at very fast 
reachability restoration in the event of failure.

To meet customer's and today's applications requirements one can forget 
about hop by hop switching, sending withdraws network wide, re-propagate 
new best paths etc ... That is gone model.

To meet such requirements requires to store backup paths for all 
destinations in FIB ahead of any failure + make sure that such router 
have very fast failure detection scheme. Every one could see that the 
less routers are configured with accelerated restoration features it 
scales much better ... or it allows for much faster OS upgrades on such 
boxes vs running around and upgrading all edge boxes.

Imagine also vast reduction in number of BFD sessions if someone would 
choose to use this technology for ASBR/PE failure detection.

Another one assuming that we would go one step fwd and remove RIB from 
the edge and just fully mesh those couple of IP lookup routers any 
problems with oscillations are history as well as vast reduction in 
intra-as triggered BGP instabilities.

For the FIB reduction indeed small/mid size ISPs or enterprise networks 
may benefit.

But for not directly mentioned in the draft benefits of moving to 
schemes which reduces the number of FIB lookup routers in the network 
many ISPs may be interested. And indeed I would like to hear their 
opinion on the list on that.

Cheers,
R.

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