[13439] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Communities
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bradley Dunn)
Wed Nov 5 23:20:13 1997
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 23:16:48 -0500 (EST)
From: Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971102093050.00831450@pop.mcit.com>
On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, James A. Farrar wrote:
> >It would seem to me to be helpful when coming up with
> >policy to route traffic bound for internal/customer
> >networks of an upstream to that upstream (unless that link
> >is down). Sometimes the path selection does not allow
> >this and we are forced to use foolish kludges like
> >as path prepending and other neanderthalic clubbings.
> >
> MCI offers announcemnets of:
>
> Backbone Routes
> Customer Routes
> Customer Routes - w/MED
> Full Routes
> Full Routes - w/MED
Here is the kicker: How about Full Routes with Backbone and Customer
Routes tagged with a community denoting their status?
Bradley
