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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Karrenberg)
Fri Jan 5 07:37:17 1996
To: "Steven J. Richardson" <sjr@merit.edu>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, routing-wg@ripe.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 04 Jan 1996 16:28:36 EST.
<199601042128.QAA06476@home.merit.edu>
From: Daniel Karrenberg <Daniel.Karrenberg@ripe.net>
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 13:31:23 +0100
> "Steven J. Richardson" <sjr@merit.edu> writes:
>
> Lest anyone think that the PRDB was single-backbone-specific in
> _design_ or capability (it pretty much was in terms of data), let
> me note that, when Andy Adams and I rewrote the PRDB from a SPIRES
> DB to a RDBMS (with help from Tom Libert and Sue Hares), we explicitly
> designed in the ability to include data from other backbones.
>
> This was initially done to support both the T1 and T3 backbones, but
> it could easily have supported other backbones as well.
I know that, but if I recall things correctly the concept was one of
just extending the number of "backbones" (i.e. last-resort routing
services) and dit not support all implementable policies between autonomous
ASes in a basically arbitrary topology. Or am I wrong?
Daniel
