[21659] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Strange BGP announcement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Tue Nov 17 20:30:34 1998
To: patrick@ianai.net (I Am Not An Isp)
cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Tony Li <tli@juniper.net>
Date: 17 Nov 1998 17:09:25 -0800
In-Reply-To: patrick@ianai.net's message of 17 Nov 98 20:04:16 GMT
patrick@ianai.net (I Am Not An Isp) writes:
> You said you wanted routers that followed the RFC. The RFC does not
> mention list AS_PATH length as a route selection criteria. I have been
> told that the draft for the next rev specifically prohibits using AS_PATH
> length as a route selection criteria.
Patently false. In particular, the spec allows an implementation to invoke
local policy when computing the local preference of a route. An
implementation can reasonably incorporate the AS path length in its local
preference calculations as part of its policy.
Tony
