Re: [sidr] Injecting idea of "freshness of repository data" into BGP

Jakob Heitz <jakob.heitz@ericsson.com> Thu, 29 March 2012 07:50 UTC

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Could we not put a freshness indication into the BGP update?
Then everyone that receives the new update would know to invalidate the less fresh paths.

Here is the key point:
The new update will reach everywhere that it needs to go.
Won't it?

No expiry time needed.

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Jakob Heitz.