Re: Comments on draft-shaikh-rtgwg-policy-model

Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@pfrc.org> Mon, 27 July 2015 21:30 UTC

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From: Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@pfrc.org>
To: Antoni Przygienda <antoni.przygienda@ericsson.com>
Subject: Re: Comments on draft-shaikh-rtgwg-policy-model
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On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 09:04:34PM +0000, Antoni Przygienda wrote:
> Answers expected, I'll look it up once some first version is available.
> More than RPSL ? intriguing. RPSL was a closed algebra with closure so I
> really want to see how  this baby is  even better ;-)  Linear programming? 

Better is arguable.  More flexible and inside-a-box complete, perhaps.

>From a functional standpoint, the stuff has branch logic.  All else could
collapse out to the same arguments of yore, but this simple detail makes
things a lot more palatable to policy consumers and writers.

-- Jeff