Re: [rrg] Inter/intra-domain routing separation

["Fleischman, Eric" <[e-mail]>]

It is my personal opinion that most of these definitions are already
well established in Internet parlance and therefore re-definitions are
not warranted (or needed).

It is also my personal opinion that some of the recent postings could
have been resolved by reference to well-established traditional
architectural principals such as the IP Topology Hierarchy, which
defines topology layers such as "autonomous systems" as well as routing
concepts such as intra-domain and inter-domain.

Coworkers who think as I do in terms of historic Internet constructs
such as those articulated by Catenet, the ROAD Group, or NIMROD will
probably think in terms of recursion and the possibility of creating
complex structures within IP Topology Hierarchy layers. The power and
beauty of this historic model when applied to the IP Topology Hierarchy
framework is amazingly impressive. But that is the topic for another
posting... The goal of this posting is solely to express my personal
opinion that historic Internet concepts and traditional Internet
terminology retain great value, power, and usefulness and should not
easily be overlooked (or modified).