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Re: Private draft submission

"Alex P. Rudnev" <alex@virgin.relcom.eu.net> Sat, 06 November 1999 17:49 UTC

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From: "Alex P. Rudnev" <alex@virgin.relcom.eu.net>
To: Ben Black <black@layer8.net>
Cc: Vijay Gill <wrath@cs.umbc.edu>, Paul Traina <pst@juniper.net>, danny@ice.ip.qwest.net, idr@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Private draft submission
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An attractive list... but where to get this drafts?

PS. Btw, the idea of community filtering is not dead, there is the draft about
it. 


On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Ben Black wrote:

> Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 20:04:45 -0800
> From: Ben Black <black@layer8.net>
> To: Vijay Gill <wrath@cs.umbc.edu>
> Cc: Paul Traina <pst@juniper.net>, danny@ice.ip.qwest.net, idr@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Private draft submission
> 
> Anyone have copies of the DPA drafts around?
> 
> Destination Preference Attribute for BGP
>         <draft-ietf-idr-bgp-dpa-05.txt>
> 
> Application of the BGP Destination Preference Attribute in Implementing
> Symmetric Routing
>         <draft-ietf-idr-dpa-application-02.txt>
> 
> Current Practice of Implementing Symmetric Routing and Load Sharing in the
> Multi-Provider Internet
>         <draft-ietf-idr-symm-multi-prov-02.txt>
> 
> They may offer an option which can be implemented entirely within the
> existing framework.
> 
> On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 02:55:20PM -0500, Vijay Gill wrote:
> > On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Paul Traina wrote:
> > 
> > > Simple facts of life wrt. bgp metrics:
> > > 
> > > (a) we don't change the tie breaking algorithm
> > > (b) any "metric" is taken as advisory, and said metric
> > >     should become a modifier to the LOCAL_PREF attribute
> > >     generated by the ingress router to an AS.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > So, if we were to do Vadim's old proposal of a vector of preference
> > > metrics, we'd get:
> > > 
> > > 	LOCAL_PREF += SUM(k1p1, k2p2, k3p3, k4p4, k5p5)
> > > 
> > > where the Ks are scaler multipliers looked up in a table based upon
> > > AS number's.
> > > 
> > > The big thing to realize is that all of this stuff just changes
> > > local_pref.  Changing the tie breaking logic at this point is
> > > insanity.
> > 
> > No one is disagreeing on that one.
> > 
> > We just need to push something that is workable and consisent and I think
> > vadim's draft is about as useful as anything I've seen in here. Thats for
> > sure. 
> > 
> > /vijay
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
>  --b
> 
> 
> 

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