Re: [RPSEC] Basis of Requirements?

Sandy Murphy <sandy@tislabs.com> Wed, 28 September 2005 12:40 UTC

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From: Sandy Murphy <sandy@tislabs.com>
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Subject: Re: [RPSEC] Basis of Requirements?
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>Well, the _intent_ of the document is that the AS_PATH contain _all_
>of the ASes.  This is obviously necessary for loop avoidance.

Yes, as Russ White et all say in draft-white-pathconsiderations-05.txt:

>path vector
>protocols, such as [BGP], prove a path is loop free by carrying a
>list of nodes the advertisement itself has traversed.

--Sandy

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