Re: Proxy: comments on section 9.1.3

Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@nexthop.com> Fri, 20 September 2002 18:31 UTC

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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:31:54 -0400
From: Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@nexthop.com>
To: curtis@fictitious.org
Cc: idr@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Proxy: comments on section 9.1.3
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BTW, just to be public about this:

On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 05:28:15PM -0400, Curtis Villamizar wrote:
> > > You are referring to 3.1 which maybe isn't clear enough.
> > > 
> > >  3.1 Routes: Advertisement and Storage
> > > 
> > >    For the purpose of this protocol, a route is defined as a unit of
> > >    information that pairs a set of destinations with the attributes of a
> > 
> > Note *set*.
> > 
> > Thus, I expect that a "route" consists of one or more destinations
> > in the NLRI with path attributes.
> 
> destination == host address
> 
> One route is one NRLI plus the attributes.
> 
> One UPDATE may have zero or more NRLI.

Thanks for your explanation.  With the note that "destination== host address",
things made much more sense.  But I've had every one of our new people
at NextHop reading the spec ask about this, so I like the new text
much better. :-)

-- 
Jeff Haas 
NextHop Technologies