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Re: Another suggestion for draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-12.txt

Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@nexthop.com> Thu, 23 August 2001 21:42 UTC

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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:40:19 -0400
From: Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@nexthop.com>
To: Enke Chen <enke@redback.com>, idr@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Another suggestion for draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-12.txt
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On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 05:35:38PM -0400, Jeffrey Haas wrote:
> But what happens when we add the Next Greatest Thing that we also want
> to stuff as much as possible in the path attributes?
> 
> "Should" still lets us do this.

That didn't come out right.

"Should" would still let us reorder things, but only if the implementor
wanted to.

-- 
Jeff Haas 
NextHop Technologies

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