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Re: Intra/Inter - was Inet-II

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John G. Scudder)
Sat Oct 12 23:23:31 1996

In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19961013021241.006b47b0@lint.cisco.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 23:17:30 -0400
To: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
From: "John G. Scudder" <jgs@ieng.com>
Cc: bmanning@isi.edu, nanog@merit.edu

At 10:12 PM -0400 10/12/96, Paul Ferguson wrote:
...
>At 11:15 AM 10/11/96 -0700, bmanning@ISI.EDU wrote:
...
>>BGP has a number of serious flaws.  The more complex the routing mesh, the
>>more they will become visable.  And if what I see is correct, IDRP, the
>>BGP heir, has the same sets of problems.
>
>Another suggestion? Lacking one, one might suggest that the complexity
>of the 'mesh' needs to be simplified.

Lacking another suggestion, at least an enumeration of specific problems
would be quite constructive.  (That is, I think that vague assertions are
not especially constructive.)

Perhaps Bill would like to send his specific critiques to the IDR mailing list.

Regards,

--John

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