[218] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: routing meltdown
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yakov Rekhter)
Fri Aug 11 14:15:13 1995
To: jon@branch.com (Jon Zeeff)
cc: nanog@merit.edu, yakov@cisco.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 11 Aug 95 13:56:55 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 95 11:04:22 PDT
From: Yakov Rekhter <yakov@cisco.com>
Jon,
> Perhaps "policies, procedures & data" is a better word than "protocols" used
> in the generic sense.
>
> I want to route things differently based on the time of day, whether
> or not a particular network is seeing heavy traffic, and what my
> horoscope said today. I can implement this much more easily on a
> workstation where I have source code than I can convince Cisco to
> implement it.
I wonder how many ISP operations have a requirement to support
internet-wide routing based on such factors as traffic load or
your horoscope. Let me personally assure you that if there will be enough
demand, then there will be enough supply.
Yakov.
