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Re: [mpls] MPLS-RT review of draft-osborne-mpls-extended-admin-groups-01

"Adrian Farrel" <adrian@olddog.co.uk> Mon, 03 June 2013 15:03 UTC

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From: Adrian Farrel <adrian@olddog.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [mpls] MPLS-RT review of draft-osborne-mpls-extended-admin-groups-01
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Hi Eric,

> The short answer is that some operators use link colors with global
significance
> (e.g. "This is a link in the northeastern US part of my network") and use this
> information in their path calculation.  Providing this sort of geotagging
information
> with the existing AGs limits you to 32 regions worldwide.  I'll add something
to
> this effect at the next update.

Thanks for the background.

It makes me wonder whether this use is really resource affinities or a different
pseudo-SRLG-geo-proximity indicator.

Maybe the answer is that you need an entirely new object for an entirely
different application?

Adrian

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