Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-idr-bgp-dpa-04.txt

[Tony Bates <[e-mail]>]

The major change here is that we slightly modified the Route selection
part of the text such that the DPA_AS will NOT be considered in the
selection. This is after various desicussions with implementors and
the added implementation/convergence this potentially adds.

			--Tony.

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  *        Title     : Destination Preference Attribute for BGP                
  *        Author(s) : E. Chen, T. Bates
  *        Filename  : draft-ietf-idr-bgp-dpa-04.txt
  *        Pages     : 5
  *        Date      : 01/29/1996
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  * The Border Gateway Protocol [1] is an inter-autonomous system routing 
  * protocol designed for TCP/IP internets.   
  *                                  
  * This document describes a new BGP path attribute termed "Destination 
  * Preference Attribute" (DPA) which can be used by a single autonomous system
  * (AS) to specify globally transitive metrics in its routing announcement via
  * BGP.  The metric can then be used by upstream BGP speakers to favor certain
  * path for return traffic.  The application of this attribute includes 
  * facilitating the implementation of symmetric routing and load sharing in 
  * the multi-provider Internet.                                               
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