Re: draft-meyer-demandrouting-02.txt

[Gerry Meyer <[e-mail]>]

Fred Baker <[e-mail]> wrote:

>< The circuit manager MAY enforce additional security by not accepting
>< incoming calls.

>(I guess it wouldn't have occurred to me either to put that statement in or
>to take it out; I don't care if I MAY or MAY NOT, my customers are going to
>require me to screen calls - and if I'm screening your calls out, what
>happens in your version of the routing protocol is of no consequence to
>me.)

OK.  The reason I took the sentence out is I am wary of sanctioning any
mechanism which appears to make a connection between peer routers asymmetric.

>I saw a few editorial changes ("a" -> "an", etc) also. Have I missed anything?

The rambling last sentence of the Abstract was shortened to make it more to
the point and the Acknowledgements have been updated.  Thats it.

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>Some questions:

>what is the relationship between this approach and AURP? Would you
>recommend building an RTMP version of Demand Routing (because it relies
>only on AppleTalk connectivity)

Yes. Demand Routing can readily be applied to RTMP.

AURP is an EGP, whereas I very much view my RIP proposal is an IGP.

There are clearly applications in which AURP provides the only solution -
eg tunneling over long hauls.

>or should we lean on somebody to submit
>the latest AURP documentation as an Info RFC?

They should probably be encouraged to do that anyway.

>How about Xerox/3COM and UB RIP (IDP)? Vines? DECNET IV?

I don't have specifications for all of these.  Correct me if I am wrong.
Most have RIP variants which I believe can be handled by my approach.
Create command types with the 'usual' values 6, 7 and 8 and insert
sequence number, fragment and number of fragments in the routing packet
before any routes are listed.

Would you feel a short informational memo covering RTMP and other applicable
RIP variants would be appropriate?

I don't have a solution for DECNET IV (or CLNP) - but if someone wants to
invent RIP for these.  I wasn't planning to ...

>Bridge BPDUs? (he ducks the barrage of aging tomatos...)

Or bridging.

    Gerry