Re: [Idr] IDR WG LC on draft-ietf-idr-ix-bgp-route-server (2/2/2015 - 2/16/2015)

[Thomas Mangin <[e-mail]>]

Sounds like it is time to find a big basher and get this author to 
finish his draft (under duress if it helps to get it out quickly :p).

Thomas

On 2015-02-11 23:55, David Freedman wrote:
>> it would be more sensible to define a new bgp attribute to allow RS
>> clients
>> to announce BFD candidacy to the RSN
> 
> +1
> 
> Actually, I was speaking recently to another author who planned to
> resurrect it in another as yet unpublished draft
> involving a new BGP attribute to signal next-hop liveliness detection
> (hopefully this post will prompt them into action to mention it).
> 
> In this discussion, we determined that these duties could probably be
> devolved directly to BFD itself, which could (if configured suitably) 
> be
> left to discover potential peers and set up sessions based on seeing 
> them
> as next hops in the incoming BGP RIBs learned from the IXP route 
> server.
> This seemed like a much better approach than leaving it to BGP and the 
> RS
> (which relieves some of the potential burden on it IMHO)
> 
> Dave.
> 
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