[131616] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Topic: Inter-AS BGP Local Preference Matrix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Sat Oct 30 02:16:26 2010
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Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 02:16:18 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>, "Rettke,
Brian" <Brian.Rettke@cableone.biz>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com> wro=
te:
>> 5. All vendors should make an effort to standardize the values/value ran=
ges offered with other vendors.
>> 6. All vendors should offer a local preference matrix to their customers=
, listing the changes made to a specific AS (e.g. another vendor) to aid th=
e customer in making an intelligent routing decision for load balancing and=
traffic engineering in a multivendor BGP environment.
>>
>> It's obviously something that each of us would need to do individually, =
but I'm wondering if there is any way this could become a de facto standard=
, or could be a method that the community at large could enforce somehow.
>>
>
> I'm not sure what incentive there would be for the providers to
> coordinate like this;
> it would mean quite a bit more work for them, with no appreciable gain
> in revenue
> for it.
not to mention the sloshing of traffic to get to a standard... weee!
