Re: [sidr] Confeds and clusters

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Mon, 18 June 2012 22:09 UTC

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> In some cases Confeds have nothing to do with scale and everything to
> do with boundaries of trust for those of us with different internal
> and autonomous organizations responsible for managing different parts
> of our network. A confed requires some manner of coordination between
> the members of the confed, but it in no way implies that all of the
> members of the confed are centrally managed, nor should it.

for sure.  in verio, it was all about trust boundaries and segregating
igps.  66 acquisitions in three years, and sharing needles was just not
in the cards.

randy