Re: [sidr] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-dickson-sidr-route-leak-def-01.txt

[Jeffrey Haas <[e-mail]>]

Brian,

On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 07:31:23PM -0500, Brian Dickson wrote:
> Here is the first of three IDs, concerning the definitions of "route leak".


: 1.1. Rationale
: 
: 
:    A route-leak occurs when a prefix is originated by one party,
:    propagated by other parties, and received by the observer, where the
:    path used was not intentional end-to-end.  It is a leak if the
:    receiver did not want the route, from a generic policy perspective.

If the receiver didn't want the route?  While that's perhaps true in many
cases, the impacted party is usually someone whose route was distributed
outside the scope where they intended it to be distributed.

-- Jeff